Over the past four years, Erick Erickson has won ad revenue, books deals, and a lucrative CNN contract by posing such insightful rhetorical questions as, “Is Obama shagging hookers behind the media’s back?” The...
~by M.A. Conor P. Williams, in Conservatism Isn’t Radical—It’s “Modular”, argues that there is a certain amount of mental jiu-jitsu involved in shifting frameworks from argument to argument. An interesting test of this very case...
I have the unfortunate tendency to sometimes listen to rightwing radio while I drive. On morning news shows and during the afternoon bouts of Sean Hannity I subject myself to, I often hear the...
This is an appropriate time to turn back, once again, to one of my favorite John Derbyshire pieces published waybackwhen in The American Conservative: How Radio Wrecks the Right. A long excerpt: Taking the...
Mike Farmer objects to my criticism of Fox News as a network which appeals to the doing brain rather than the thinking brain: E.D. Kain tries to write a fair and balanced post on...
It’s clear to me that Conor and to a lesser extent Rod don’t understand what Jamelle, Freddie, E.D., and myself have been driving at in our various critiques of reform-minded conservatism. Conor’s misunderstanding is...
It’s interesting to watch how conservatives and liberals treat each other. How they categorize one another. I’ve tried to distinguish between the two – since it seems they each have different methods of dehumanizing...
I read Steven Hayward’s article on intellectual conservatism with some interest, mainly because I thought Hayward – as a scholar with the American Enterprise Institute and frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard – would...
Guess what? Talk radio hosts and cable tv stars like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck say crazy, paranoid, flame-baiting, stupid, awful things. Surprise! They do it for the ratings. It’s a ploy that is...
A few days ago Conor wrote: [C]able news networks should ban Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin (I haven’t listened to the other hosts enough to make a judgment one way or another)...
Much as their blind loyalty discredited the Right, perhaps the worst effect of Limbaugh et al. has been their draining away of political energy from what might have been a much more worthwhile project:...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25One full of and run by f*cking idiots. on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25And we managed to really alienate Canada. What kind of country manages to alienate Canada? on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Apologies on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25You know how, periodically, there's a situation in California that results in house insurance compan… on The HoldoutIs it just thumb wrestling and something you say before the match? It's not a rhyme and googling it…
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