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...

Young Republicans have always been fractious, ambitious, weird, and sometimes gross. As soon as it was formed, the conservative Young Americans for Freedom was a backstabbing mess. Anyway, check out this post from the archive. open.substack.com/pub/joshuata...

Zing.

This sentence, which begins "Furthermore, once Ronald Reagan..." is so weird. "Ascended" is weird framing that obscures any activity or causality to Reagan's election, and I frankly don't know how an ideology "affirms itself." A strange mysticism permeates this analysis.

One of my great fears is that future generations, including those younger than me, will lose any instinctive preference for material created by humans over something AI generated. Heck, it's already happening.

Without a shadow of a doubt, if he’d enjoyed the current media environment, Nixon would have survived Watergate.

Has the Right embraced smoking? It was always thus. More than a personal choice, smoking was a rejection of liberal puritanism, rationalism, and the very concept of a “healthy” state. joshuatait.substack.com/p/a-history-...

Has the Right embraced smoking? It was always thus. More than a personal choice, smoking was a rejection of liberal puritanism, rationalism, and the very concept of a “healthy” state. joshuatait.substack.com/p/a-history-...

Caveat emptor: reads like a high school book report.

The first ever CPAC was totally different from the present.

In terms of relevance: (1) Patrick Deneen (2) Alasdair MacIntyre (3) Adrian Vermeule (3) R. R. Reno/Gladden Pappin (4) John Milbank (5) Adrian Pabst

The first ever CPAC was totally different from the present.

I’m such a dweeb.

You can always tell the people who learned their Catholicism from Warhammer 40k.

I’ve tended to think the relative lack of ideologically motivated street violence militates against the American Weimar thesis, but, mutatis mutandis, perhaps shootings perform the same function.

Opposition to Obergefell on the Right. A sleeping giant of an issue or a sleeping dog they'll let lie?

I’ve highlighted more lines in Walker Percy’s Love In The Ruins than just about anything else I’ve read lately.

I'm writing an occasional newsletter called LK Field Notes. Here's the first post, below. It includes updates about the book, links to other recent writing, and notes about other stuff I've been up to. It has been a busy few months! open.substack.com/pub/lkfieldn...

Maria von Trapp (of Sound of Music fame): not excited about Brent Bozell's magazine, Triumph.

Patricia Buckley Bozell trying to slap Ti-Grace Atkinson, Catholic University of America, 1971, over Atkinson calling the Virgin Mary "knocked up" and "knocked down with no clues."

I love the Abundance taxonomy and graphic, but a misplaced tap of the Enter key has made it unintentionally scathing toward libs.

I hadn't seen the full-page ad from Brent Bozell and Fred Wilhelmsen's summer school before. What a curriculum, in some ways very forward-looking. And, boy, check out the "European Historical Experience" section.

If people are campaigning for Pat Buchanan to get a Medal of Freedom, we need to start a campaign for Garry Wills.

The vibe shift was so powerful it defeated Taylor.

Allen Tate on weekend traditionalists.

Daniel J. Flynn performed an archival miracle and found 15 unprocessed boxes of Frank Meyer’s correspondence in a warehouse, which became the basis of his thorough but too-gentle biography. @joshuatait.bsky.social reviews "The Man Who Invented Conservatism": www.thebulwark.com/p/frank-meye...

How is communitarianism meant to function when the internet creates regional homogenization on one hand and individual atomization on the other?

Can conservatives write good biographies of conservative icons? Check out my review of the new Frank Meyer biography. www.thebulwark.com/p/frank-meye...

Seward Collins, the pro-fascist editor of the American Review, on his anti-Semitic turn. One feels it is instructive on the present moment.

I finally tracked this academics for Nixon ad down. An interesting bunch willing to publicly go to bat for Nixon. You can see the Kristol influence - although Nathan Glazer and James Q. Wilson refused. Funny seeing Leo Strauss on there.

Shout out to conspiracy theorists who make falsifiable claims (X event will happen on Y date). Negative shout out to the systems of cognitive dissonance that let them carry on afterwards.

Thanks, Amazon. I get it.

With all due respect to the New York Times, the only reason anyone outside the movement knows Kevin DeAnna writes under the pseudonym is me. I outed him in 2020. You can read on his central role in the alt-right here: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha... www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...

I remember very clearly that Mark Steyn had - maybe still has - a talking point about how conservatives are more healthy than liberals because they have hobbies and a whole life outside politics.

"First they came for Cracker Barrel, and I did not speak out, because I was not a cracker..."