Howdeee!
I'd also like to thank Jay for inviting me aboard. Regarding Laurent's suggestion regarding Reason - good idea. I like Reason, and like their website even more - it actually makes Libertarians seem like (pardon the pun) reasonable people, which isn't quite the impression I've gotten debating with them online.
And while we all like to get our inner policy wonks out for a run in the park, I'd like to see as much cultural content as political, if only for the simple reason that - and I think we should be up front about this now - what we're doing is marketing conservatism as sane, smart, and attractive.
I don't want to encourage a defensive tone - a wheedling, whining "please love us" sort of approach - but there should be a forum to show that there's a conservative way of looking at music, movies, books, TV, and that it doesn't begin with the sort of elitist disdain I associate with The New Criterion, for instance. (And don't get me wrong - I also love TNC.)
Kathy Shaidle and I have a movie project thing coming up, and I write a TV column every day that's pretty obviously written from a conservative viewpoint. A lot of us are former punks; most of us are openly obsessed with some facet of pop culture. Let's give our cultural obsessions as long a leash as our political ones - I think that would go a long way to fulfilling what's slowly emerging as a mandate.
And yeah - photo essays. Of course (he said, selfishly.)
And while we all like to get our inner policy wonks out for a run in the park, I'd like to see as much cultural content as political, if only for the simple reason that - and I think we should be up front about this now - what we're doing is marketing conservatism as sane, smart, and attractive.
I don't want to encourage a defensive tone - a wheedling, whining "please love us" sort of approach - but there should be a forum to show that there's a conservative way of looking at music, movies, books, TV, and that it doesn't begin with the sort of elitist disdain I associate with The New Criterion, for instance. (And don't get me wrong - I also love TNC.)
Kathy Shaidle and I have a movie project thing coming up, and I write a TV column every day that's pretty obviously written from a conservative viewpoint. A lot of us are former punks; most of us are openly obsessed with some facet of pop culture. Let's give our cultural obsessions as long a leash as our political ones - I think that would go a long way to fulfilling what's slowly emerging as a mandate.
And yeah - photo essays. Of course (he said, selfishly.)
posted by rick mcginnis at 7:47 AM
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LOTS of photo essays! ;-)
Which would explain, Sean, why you want all that bandwidth...
But I agree with Rick's point about culture. And not just from a conservative perspective. There are literally thousands of books, cds and movies - not to mention televsion - which go unreviewed. One of the best ways of expanding beyond a core audience is to be paying attention to what is happening in the culture.
I'd also like to see some science/tech/computing/internet coverage. So keep you eyes open for smart people who are blogging at that end of the world.
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