As a budding writer, getting my name in a newspaper meant more than getting paid for the article. The post A Young Letter-Writer’s Sound and Fury appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture A Young Letter-Writer’s Sound and Fury As a budding writer, getting my name in a newspaper meant more than getting paid for the article.Open
The horrors of war are a recurring theme in the great Western art of the last century. The post Antiwar Art for Conservatives appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Antiwar Art for Conservatives The horrors of war are a recurring theme in the great Western art of the last century. By now, the argument has a bleak familiarity: Conservatives lack the toolkit to make good art, and all too often they lack the perception to recognize good art. Something like this position has been sketched in countless think pieces, including a recent one in First Things (“Why Can’t Conservatives Create Art?”), and has been substantiated through such regrettable ventures as the substitute Super Bowl halftime show led by Kid Rock. Last year, in these very pages, I reviewed a book whose title sums up…Open
My veteran father taught me not to get swept away by military fervor. The post Never for War appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Never for War My veteran father taught me not to get swept away by military fervor. I was about two months shy of my eighth birthday when the Gulf War began in January 1991, but my memory of it, and of my father’s stern admonition against war-making in general and that war in particular, left me with enough antiwar spirit to last a lifetime. As improbable as it may sound, given how young I was, I still remember the eruption of the war on the television in my family’s living room. The personages on our side were rather memorable: Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, TV reporters Peter Arnett and Arthur Kent, singer Whitney…Open