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William Wleklinski
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5/06/2002
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What magazines, journals, etc., would you (or others) recommend for the traditionalist conservative living in America today?
Titles that occur to me include Chronicles, Modern Age, University Bookman. I would add the neoconservative New Criterion and City Journal, the last mainly for pieces by Dalrymple and Scruton. Anything else?
National Review generally doesn't speak for us, and Weekly Standard never did.
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Bill Riggs
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5/06/2002
20:46:31
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First Things is a pretty good journal that encapsulates many of the issues touching traditionalist conservatives. Commentary has been also leading influence on conservative social policy.
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Jim Kalb
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5/06/2002
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I don't read many magazines these days. After a while you start to think you know what sorts of things they're going to say so you read other things.
On the traditionalist side I do think Modern Age and Intercollegiate Review are worth reading and getting better.
On the neocon side I look at First Things occasionally. The Public Interest in another neoconish mag that's sometimes useful. At the New Crit they have the great virtue of genuine interest in something that isn't politics. And I agree that the Brits who write for City Journal are worth reading.
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Gerald Russello
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5/13/2002
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I like Jim's idea: better to read Irving Babbitt or Russell Kirk than most current conservative literature. But I think First Things is usually pretty good.
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William1969
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6/30/2002
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What about The Spectator? It's always been a really sound mag. Paul Gottfried's occasionally published in it. I would add to it Right Now! magazine -- http://www.right-now.org -- which like The Spectator is published in the UK.
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William1969
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6/30/2002
15:08:18
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I almost forgot to add that Pat Buchanan, Scott McConnell, and Taki Theodoracopulos, are founding a new mag, The American Conservative, for "traditional conservatives." Firstissue out in September.
http://www.amconmag.com
Personally I don't see how effective a traditionalist approach -- as opposed to an active, counter-revolutionary one -- can be in the present climate. But at least there will be another forum for such debates (or so I hope).
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John
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6/30/2002
16:21:47
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William1969: "an active, counter-revolutionary one"
What do you mean by this sir?
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Thunk
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7/02/2002
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I would add to the list The Wanderer and The New American.
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Ian Hare
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7/04/2002
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Alberta Report (see http://report.ca) is a conservative newsmagazine with national Canadian coverage.
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William1969
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7/06/2002
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What I mean is, it's all well and good sitting around in book-lined studies reading Chesterton, drinking port, and reciting cute phrases in Latin (activities in which I am certain the neo-con Buckleyites regularly indulge), but it really doesn't do much to turn back the revolution and advance the cause of civilization.
In other words, what is needed (in my opinion) is direct action against the forces that are destroying our civilization. There is counter-revolution of the mind; there is counter-revolution of the soul; and there is counter-revolution of the fist. This last one is what I am most interested in.
Our opponents excel at direct action, by which they have come to dominate the cultural, government, and media institutions. Yet the most US right-wingers can do is mount feeble protests and then go back inside to discuss Aquinas.
It's pathetic.
Note that I am not advocating street fighting or any type of explicitly illegal activity. But I think the time is coming when patriots need to consider seriously whether operations of an alternative nature are called for.
William in Connecticut
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Matteo
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7/07/2002
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I agree with you, depending on what is 'alternative.' However I do not see how this would not be 'traditionalist' as the goals are indeed 'traditionalist.' As a counter-revolution is to restore traditionalist values.
Indeed, objectives are not normally achieved by feeble protests. There must be a multi-faceted approach.
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Wm. Wleklinski
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7/17/2002
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A couple of you have recommended "First Things," and I am a subscriber. Interesting that the current issue (Aug.-Sept.) prints a book review by Scott McConnell, a member of the John Randolph Club and an editor of the forthcoming American Conservative fortnightly, the latter along with Taki and Buchanan. Also in FT, Fr. Neuhaus addresses the concerns of a friend who thinks that there is a "war" raging between FT and Commentary.
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