http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ en-us crunchymail@nationalreview.com 2006-03-31T16:20:17-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093953.asp I’ll be busy with other projects for the rest of the afternoon, so this is going to be my last post on this blog. I want to thank Kathryn for suggesting it and hosting it. I want to thank Bruce,... 93953@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Dreher 2006-03-31T16:20:17-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093952.asp Clark Stooksbury suggests Dispatches From the Muckdog Gazette by Bill Kauffman, which Clark reviews here. I’m currently reading a review copy of Kauffman’s forthcoming Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals, which is a real treat.... 93952@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Dreher 2006-03-31T16:19:10-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093951.asp Max Goss over at Right Reason has a mixed review of “Crunchy Cons.” It’s a fair review, certainly, and I’m grateful for his attention to the book. It does sound like the reviewer wanted the book to be more intellectual... 93951@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Dreher 2006-03-31T16:17:33-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093922.asp Mike, the CC fellow traveler who thinks CC-ism lacks communitas, adds to the reading list:Aristotle, Politics Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream William F. Lynch, Christ... 93922@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Dreher 2006-03-31T12:30:25-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093910.asp The canon lawyer Pete Vere has written a kind consideration of Crunchy Cons for Catholic Exchange. Read it here. I especially appreciated this part:Dreher chronicles how many families are living out their crunchy con convictions. From homeschooling to organic and... 93910@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ 2006-03-31T11:56:05-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093902.asp Sarah Butler Nardo, erstwhile crunchy blogger, writes:I like the reading list idea very much - my recommendations would be "At the End of an Age" by John Lukacs and some Nisbet, probably "The Quest for Community," which any conservative, crunchy... 93902@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Dreher 2006-03-31T11:09:04-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093900.asp We are a nation of Prufrocks. In our rush to chase the latest thing, to have the shiniest gadget, to think the newest idea, to be first in the lock-step march of progress, we grow old … we grow old.... 93900@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ 2006-03-31T10:56:05-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093891.asp An excellent suggestion from a reader, echoing similar requests:I understand that this blog site will wrap up soon. Perhaps a good way to wrap things up would be for you and some of the other regular bloggers to suggest a... 93891@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Dreher 2006-03-31T10:23:39-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093845.asp This is probably my last post to the CC blog (I'm traveling tomorrow). So, for whatever it's worth, here's my take on why Crunchy Cons is important from a political standpoint, and where we should go from here: conservatism isn't... 93845@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Frohnen 2006-03-30T18:16:02-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093821.asp Agreeing in general with Caleb's view that we must see politics as an arena in which we must take evil along with good, I'd like to point out the danger the Republican Party faces from a possible reversion to pre-Reagan... 93821@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Frohnen 2006-03-30T14:04:29-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093819.asp I had to get into something controversial that’s difficult to talk about and which … well, I didn’t hold back, I told all.You admitted that your nickname is "Poochy"? Man, this is going to be bad. One of my favorite... 93819@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Mathewes-Green 2006-03-30T13:39:09-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093811.asp Alas, I read too much into Kim’s lonely crunchy con post. She writes back:Actually, I did not state why I am joining a convent. I am joining one because that is where God is calling me, not because I can't... 93811@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Dreher 2006-03-30T12:59:49-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093806.asp Kim in NYC:You ask the question in your latest post: "What should I have told him?" I know it sounds cliché, but I think the only thing that works is a bit of political "ecumenism": let’s start working on what... 93806@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Dreher 2006-03-30T12:06:40-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093805.asp Rod, whenever I hear talk from those who want to “break out of” the stale left-right debates I am always immediately skeptical and want to know what game they are playing at. This may sound odd coming from one who... 93805@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Stegall 2006-03-30T12:05:35-05:00 http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/archives/093795.asp Things went pretty well with the Washington Post reporter, Hank Stuever, who turned out to be a really nice guy. At one point asked a perfectly reasonable question that I had hoped he might not, because I had to get... 93795@http://crunchycon.nationalreview.com/ Dreher 2006-03-30T11:05:06-05:00