Ask any knowledgeable conservative to identify their least-favorite president, and more and more the answer these days will come back: Woodrow Wilson! But this was not always so. For a long time FDR held the crown, but in the last generation a number of closer looks have come to recognize that Wilson, and the broader …

// Dumb title -- really smart edition of the podcast.

 

But we know Grieder doesn't like (translated: understand) West Coast Straussians, so she literally just sits thinking she's won the twitter or something. Bizarre

Michael Anton’s controversial 2016 essay “The Flight 93 Election” was compared to Tom Paine’s Common Sense as a tract that grabbed the public imagination. Michael is back now with a new book, After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote That Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose. Steve Hayward talked with Michael Sunday …

But in a spirit of candor, Anton does not halt his explanation there. He admits that he declined to reveal his name because he feared losing friends, he feared being hated, and most of all he feared “ending a reasonably successful corporate career with no possibility of it ever being revived.”

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I am sure I criticized the anonymous nature of the article as well at the time.

Now that I have seen the Turner administration go after a friend's employment based on twitter commentary, I am not so bothered by it.

That article has arguably changed the trajectory of Michael's life, and could well have put him in jeopardy of prolonged unemployment at the time. In retrospect, I have no beef with the anonymity or Charles Kesler's judgment in allowing it.

Jaffa-esque

But most people, not gifted with a great education and lucky breaks, are not able to hop and skip between capital cities, finding each metropolis increasingly and pleasantly like the other. They’re in suburbs and small towns, or in the rust-belt north, whence Orwell’s patriotic (emphatically not nationalist) socialism sprang. And they’re anxious — in a way that the young are not anxious. For the under-40s, economic insecurity, college debt, and inability to own a home drive the angst. For the over-40s, it’s a sense that the England they identified with, that gave their lives meaning and pride — the England that was nearly destroyed in the “finest hour” of 1940 — this “sceptered isle,” is disappearing.