“The American Conservative is Worthless.”
My friend and colleague, Glaivester, read some work at The American Conservative, aka AMCONMAG, and found it to be pc, with the likes of Rod Dreher and Daniel Larison damning conservative Republican politicians for being … conservatives, as opposed to RINOS or Democrats.
It also seems that publisher Ron Unz, who was never a paleo to begin with, was fired by his own board for being insufficiently pc.
But Unz was paying the bills! (He was also one of the only brilliant people still involved with the magazine.) How could they fire him?! I’d think it’d be the other way around.
Several months ago, I read some articles there, had the same reaction as Glaivester, and didn’t bother going back. After all, if I want to read pc “conservatives,” I can always go to National Review (scroll all the way down), or Commentary.
Glaivester thinks the magazine should just fold. Of course, we’ve been there before with ECOMCON, er, AMCONMAG. Seven years ago, I scooped the media world by breaking the story that the magazine was going out of business, unless an angel could be found, and soon. That angel proved to be Ron Unz.
The story was, “The American Conservative is Shutting Down.”
Summary: The magazine was cowardly on race, while showing fake courage in attacking Jews. If the reports are true that Unz was thrown out for showing some moxie on race and crime, nothing has changed.
By the way, Ron Unz is a Jew.
Then as now, the magazine seemed to be targeting a reader like one who commented here in 2006,
I have been a somewhat regular reader of the magazine. "Straight talk on race" sounds like code for something divisive.But let’s not be in any hurry to hold a wake. After all, Editor Scott McConnell has already survived at least one near-death experience. Besides, I’m sentimental, when it comes to magazines.
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An utter waste. There is just something about collective journalism, unlike individual blogs, that makes them drift leftwards. Every single time.
In retrospect it makes much of their older and heavier stuff look worse, looking like just a cynical way to break in and make it, or (predictably) fail. Like an aging rock band, it was better when no one heard them.
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