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?

Perhaps Straussians, over-reliant on classical philosophy and exemplars, looking askance at modernity, are not the best guides to contemporary politics. No wonder Caesarism makes sense to them -- it's the only historical model they have.

Call me Joshmael.

Some poor soul is going to have to write a Michael Anton biography one day.

The ties of Catholic "conservatism" to actual fascism and royalism -- the tradition that gave us JD Vance-- A revealing piece by @joshuatait.bsky.social

In 1970, some two to three hundred protestors marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to protest the US regime, which they saw as genocidal. A handful, including the protest's leaders, donned the uniforms of foreign rebels. They chanted slogans in another language. 1/3

What happens to radicals when the crusade fails? Consider Triumph magazine, Carlism, and the Sons of Thunder, tragic forebears to contemporary postliberals. joshuatait.substack.com/p/stitching-...

Daily Tar Heel, October 27, 1975.

Delightful and smart. www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

New piece! Laura K. Field provides an overview of her book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, touching on the key themes, figures, and her approach. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @lkatfield.bsky.social

The Dune prequels suck. Each plot line is like: “Ah, I’ve been thwarted by my lack of foresight. One day I shall create the power to see into the future — or my name isn’t Ben E. Gesserit!”

All the arguments about heritage and ancestors and patriotism have followed a pretty clear pattern of anons setting up the Bailey and respectable conservatives reflexively defending the Motte. It's a deeply engrained habit.

What do you think of the American conservative movement? I think it would be a very good idea.

RIP Norman Podhoretz. He made society’s issues his, and ours

I wrestle with the post-liberal injunction to “know what time it is.” What does it mean, where does it come from, and what are its implications for our politics? Ultimately it’s an exaggerated phantasmagoria, but a dangerous one. substack.com/@joshuatait/...

@joshuatait.bsky.social in a great post on apocalyptic post-liberals and the fragility of their grievance gambit. [ The conservative movement’s chief thinkers have always had their own apocalyptic temptations. “Knowing what time it is” is a logical heightening of this tendency. ] here's a link ..

How it feels to listen to Cameron Winters after reading critics describe his music.

Laura K. Field is somehow on every podcast that I listen to, so I guess I'm going to need to read her book

“It’s what’s in your heart that matters” is a bad lesson to teach people if you care about personal responsibility or improving the world.

I have been on Substack notes enough times to wonder, “Should I read Stoner?”

Jean Raspail’s outrageous “The Camp of the Saints” is a minor touchstone on the immigration restrictionist right. How did it become so? What does it mean? open.substack.com/pub/joshuata...

What a great gift to receive.

Gonna start calling Joe Rogan “Bro-prah.”

Literally (and perhaps consciously) thinking in Burnhamite terms with a Burnhamite strategy. wapo.st/3Jsvgrl

Christian Ruth is doing fascinating and important work excavating the monarchist tradition here and abroad. Check out some of his work here. engelsbergideas.com/portraits/ra...

I’m surprised there hasn’t been a satanic panic among Evangelicals about LLMs as a vessel for demons.

Lord, keep me from ever describing something as “punk rock.”

A strong piece by my friend Doug Irwin. Absolutely right. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Conservatives have never been hot on the Voting Rights Act.

New piece! Matt McManus on Leo Strauss' relationship to liberalism, modernity, and antiquity, how Strauss' views have been taken up by his followers and critics, and their relevance today. Check it out! @mattpolprof.bsky.social

Game’s gone.

The lesser known Peter Tosh single

Fascinating account of right-wing fissures. Especially the questions of whose hierarchy? Which order? www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

I've written a new blog post discussing and building on the analyses in the recently published 'Conservatism, Christian Democracy and the dynamics of transformation'. www.benjaminjthomas.net/musings/ashf... 🧵

Very excited to attend this tonight. www.aei.org/events/spell...