{"id":2873,"date":"2006-07-21T18:24:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/21\/beyond-left-right\/"},"modified":"2006-07-21T18:32:17","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T01:32:17","slug":"beyond-left-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/21\/beyond-left-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Left &#038; Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special summer symposium issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/\">The American Conservative<\/a><\/em> magazine is <a href=\"http:\/\/toryanarchist.wordpress.com\/2006\/07\/21\/whos-right-whats-left-does-it-matter\/\">out<\/a>, and the subject is interesting and timely: thirty contributors, including myself,\u00c2\u00a0inquire into the meaning of &#8220;left&#8221; and &#8220;right&#8221; today. Is it useful to even talk about &#8220;conservatism&#8221; and &#8220;liberalism&#8221; anymore?<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in reading my offline work might want to check it out, and even if I hadn&#8217;t written one of the pieces I&#8217;d still get myself a copy. It&#8217;s a great line up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/index.mhtml?pid=2334\">Andrew Bacevich<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isi.org\/bios\/bio.aspx?id=a19f094d-de9f-4246-9b86-5e9cae41b58f&#038;source=Books&#038;select=true\">Jeremy Beer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isi.org\/bios\/bio.aspx?id=715f4f3e-0d84-4025-8bdd-f468192c47c0&#038;source=Spotlight&#038;select=none\">Austin Bramwell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/PatrickJBuchanan\/2006\/07\/21\/no,_this_is_not_our_war\">Patrick Buchanan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Derbyshire\">John Derbyshire<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanscene.com\/\">Ross Douthat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400050642\/102-0103842-7704107?v=glance&#038;n=283155\">Rod Dreher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policyreview.org\/dec04\/eberstadt.html\">Mary Eberstadt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediabistro.com\/articles\/cache\/a894.asp\">Nick Gillespie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Gottfried\">Paul Gottfried<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/ac\/?id=110007730\">Jeffrey Hart<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nyobserver.com\/20060717\/20060717_Nicholas_von_Hoffman_opinions_vonhoffman.asp\">Nick von Hoffman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/lind1.html\">Michael Lind<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/ideas\/articles\/2005\/03\/06\/the_anti_populist?mode=PF\">John Lukacs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/zeese.php?articleid=8472\">Scott McConnell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manhattan-institute.org\/html\/mac_donald.htm\">Heather Mac Donald<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/interviews\/04\/01\/int04001.html\">Kevin Phillips<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newamerica.net\/index.cfm?pg=Bio&#038;contactID=13\">James Pinkerton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/rockwell\/red-state-fascism.html\">Lew Rockwell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/72.14.203.104\/search?q=cache:7o8mV0Ck_HwJ:www.fpri.org\/pubs\/orbis.4703.ryn.ideologyamericanempire.pdf+%22Claes+Ryn%22&#038;hl=en&#038;gl=us&#038;ct=clnk&#038;cd=2\">Claes Ryn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirkpatrick_Sale\">Kirkpatrick Sale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phyllis_Schlafly\">Phyllis Schlafly<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppionline.org\/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=87&#038;subsecID=112&#038;contentID=252123\">Fred Siegel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/general\/features\/do-two-rights-make-a-wrong\/3329\/\">Taki Theodoracopulos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.observer.com\/\">Philip Weiss<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiltonwilliamson.com\/index.html\">Chilton Williamson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclesmagazine.org\/cgi-bin\/wilson.cgi\">Clyde Wilson<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reactionaryradicals.com\/?author=6\">John Zmirak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out your local news stand or bookstore, and get yourself a copy. <em>The American Conservative<\/em> is so consistently interesting, no matter what your ideology, that you might want to\u00c2\u00a0think about <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.starrcorp.com\/acm\/\">taking\u00c2\u00a0out a subscription<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special summer symposium issue of The American Conservative magazine is out, and the subject is interesting and timely: thirty contributors, including myself,\u00c2\u00a0inquire into the meaning of &#8220;left&#8221; and &#8220;right&#8221; today. 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