Pretty restrained, as these things go.

I suppose now we’ll see a remigration — of rightwing intellectuals out of Hungary.

In my most recent post on To Live is To Maneuver, I mentioned the rehabilitation (or celebration) of Paul Gottfried — a major figure in the episode I was writing about. Well: wapo.st/4vuig7K

Feed: "To Live Is To Maneuver" By: Joshua Tait on Wednesday, April 8, 2026

A 1986 meeting of conservative minds represents a funny and interesting episode in intellectual history, but it also prefigures fault lines present with us today. It created victors and martyrs whose positions have now reversed. open.substack.com/pub/joshuata...

A 1986 meeting of conservative minds represents a funny and interesting episode in intellectual history, but it also prefigures fault lines present with us today. It created victors and martyrs whose positions have now reversed. open.substack.com/pub/joshuata...

I’m very grateful there was no social media during the Spanish Civil War.

Has someone told Adrian Vermeule and Sohrab Ahmari and maybe JD Vance? (Psst @joshuatait.bsky.social re: our conversation of a few days back!)

If you’re a Christian, husband and father and you don’t mention it in your Twitter bio, does it still count?

My friend Henry Tonks wrote a piece for FUSION arguing Democrats need to revive the New Democrats of the 1980s who were more than just neoliberal shills. I respond that, at least going forward, it’s both more and less complicated than that. fusionaier.org/2026/what-de...

Matt Walsh reinvents historians from first principles.

Christian Nationalists persistently outbidding one another in extreme and anti-liberal rhetoric made this psychotic break inevitable.

Hey Bret Stephens, we're going to war with- Bret Stephens:

Paul Gottfried to laughter at the Philadelphia Society in 1986.

Get in, loser, we're doing Time On The Cross again.

I like to imagine the Mon Calamari are ardent nationalists, which is why they’ve joined the Alliance but will be a source of friction post-Empire.

From me in the i Paper: “Just how completely Rubio – the consummate performer – has left behind the old conservatism for the new is anyone’s guess. Answering that question will prove a defining moment in the fight for the future of the Republicans.” inews.co.uk/opinion/swam...

Opinion | "He’s always been a performer. How much is he just performing for Trump? A war for the soul of the GOP rages within him," writes Joshua Tait trib.al/5ULD5tY

Join us on March 26 for an event tracing the rise of the New Right and their assault on American freedoms, values, and ideals. Author @lkatfield.bsky.social presents her new book, Furious Minds, with @joshuatait.bsky.social moderating! Register: tinyurl.com/yubpmv7z @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

Straussians reading about Lyndon LaRouche

“If you want me to pay my taxes, you better come over with a crucifix: You're gonna have to nail me down”

Is it Madman Theory if he’s actually mad?

I recently had a lovely time talking to @llassabe.bsky.social and the American Campus Podcast about Catholicism, radical traditionalists, and Triumph magazine. Listen here: americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

I recently had a lovely time talking to @llassabe.bsky.social and the American Campus Podcast about Catholicism, radical traditionalists, and Triumph magazine. Listen here: americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

I had great fun revisiting my youth and writing this short piece on Rock Against Bush for The Dispatch. thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...

"I wonder why there is no American Idiot for the Trump era." | Joshua Tait Dispatch Culture https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-culture/rock-against-bush-coastal-elites-hopper/

I had great fun revisiting my youth and writing this short piece on Rock Against Bush for The Dispatch. thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...

National Review's editorial line in one tweet.

As I understand it, Kristi Noem is now in charge of this.

From the Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Jan. 1996. Plus ça change!

Crazy that in one of Sam Francis's primary essays on anarcho-tyranny, one of the key examples is a guy into child sexual exploitation material that Francis spins sympathetically.

the next Black Ops game should just be running a simulation of running a small literary magazine in 1950s Europe

Looking at Michael Anton’s review of @lkatfield.bsky.social’s FURIOUS MINDS in Claremont Review of Books and this isn’t true at all.

Heck yeah.

If you’re in the DC area, consider coming along to this event. lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/9n22a...

"Where are the libertarians in Trump’s America?…Among both professional and folk libertarians, there is a tendency toward a nihilistic both-sidesism that is ill suited for the present." From @joshuatait.bsky.social's obituary for Cato Institute cofounder Ed Crane: www.thebulwark.com/p/legacy-of-...

The death of a libertarian salesman and the legacy of third partyism in the Trump era. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Really superb piece on the Camp of the Saints and its life in America. Featuring commentary from @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social @hannahgais.bsky.social James Patterson, and me. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/02/2...

On Ron Paul in 2011. 👀

Big news: I’ve signed a contract with Yale University Press for my book on the modern conservative movement and the American political tradition. The book has been a long, weird, and sometimes complicated endeavor, so I’m really gratified to be working with such a great press.

Big news: I’ve signed a contract with Yale University Press for my book on the modern conservative movement and the American political tradition. The book has been a long, weird, and sometimes complicated endeavor, so I’m really gratified to be working with such a great press.

From the 1995 edition of the periodic "young conservatives" article. This one was in the New York Times Magazine.

My biggest fear is that we’re a few years away from people ONLY trusting articles and information generated by AI.

In 1985, members of the United Church of Christ, including a professor and another staff member from Elon University, went to Sen. John East's office to urge him to sanction apartheid South Africa. Instead they got Sam Francis who cursed them out and called them traitors.

The March for Life was yesterday. It has its origins, in part, among a small gang of traditionalist Catholics and prolife activists who first protested abortion clinics with the red berets and crosses of Spanish Carlism. open.substack.com/pub/joshuata...

Book idea: a group biography of Bill Kristol, John Podhoretz, Chris Buckley and Brent Bozell III.

Groyping Toward Bethlehem.

What should my next read be?