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...

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."