Now that I'm back from a very eventful few days in Vegas with friends celebrating our 21-ness, I'd just say that the American Conservative is overwhelmingly a clearinghouse for Old Right racialist bullshit. Frum's takedown-from-the-right attack on their ilk in the National Review a few years back is worth a read: Link
Naturally, I don't agree with a lot of what's in that article regarding the merits of the Iraq war, but taken as a whole there's enough in there to entirely discredit the AmCon crowd.
It's a new magazine, founded in 2002, with a mission to reclaim conservatism from the neocons. The magazine has been at the forefront of an intellectual left-right antiwar coalition, running such diverse writers as Glenn Greenwald and Pat Buchanan. Besides, in what other magazine can you read Philip Weiss and John Derbyshire?
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Now that I'm back from a very eventful few days in Vegas with friends celebrating our 21-ness, I'd just say that the American Conservative is overwhelmingly a clearinghouse for Old Right racialist bullshit. Frum's takedown-from-the-right attack on their ilk in the National Review a few years back is worth a read: Link
Naturally, I don't agree with a lot of what's in that article regarding the merits of the Iraq war, but taken as a whole there's enough in there to entirely discredit the AmCon crowd.