[Pontiac]

I picked up a copy of this magazine off a new stand and was rather surprised by what I found between the covers. I haven’t read VDH’s book but I post this review article as an example of what I found at the website. I did see him speak about the book on CSPAN2 and found his views on the Peloponnesian War fascinating. This is from the About Us page of their website.

The major conservative magazines now compete over which can bray loudest for the widest war, the most ambitious expansion of an American military imperium. More discretely, they vie to articulate their relief that the shock of 9-11 has not, as yet, translated into a decisive political push for serious immigration reform.

We will be different.

Many voices will appear in the pages of The American Conservative — often in disagreement with one another. We are of course in considerable part Buchananite—well disposed to the web of ideas that drew millions of voters during three Buchanan presidential bids. But our magazine’s mission is broader: to ignite the conversation that conservatives ought to have engaged in since the end of the Cold War, but didn’t.

As you can see this is a magazine for the Bucananite wing of the party. I was unaware that they were this far left. If you go and browse some of the other articles you will find that they should call themselves Populist not Conservatives.

[add925]

Fake Conservative Ping or the Left's New Strategy Ping

[NormsRevenge]

Gary Brecher writes the War Nerd column for the eXile, a Moscow-based weekly newspaper. lmao

[bnelson44]

Read VDH's book, not someone's opinion of the book.

[hershey]

Bizarro. The author is nuts.

[rightinthemiddle]

ping

(somebody's dissing VDH)

[wideawake]

This is third-grade level analysis.

The "points" the author makes are too ridiculous to even merit a response.

I'll just observe in passing that Victor Hanson knows the meaning of the word "madcap" - O'll quote the OED definition: "crack-brained, reckless, wildly impulsive."

I would also guess that this is a word employed by Thomas Hobbes, the premiere translator of Thucydides in English.

[Publius6961]

Hanson retelling Thucydides’ story is like Penny Marshall trying to remake “Raging Bull.”

Gary who?

[Carry_Okie]

From what I've read of the book, it's writing is pretty disjointed. It was disappointing because his columns are far better.

[Nonstatist]

this is a magazine for the Bucananite wing of the party

Yea, the John Bircher wing, which is so small you need an electron microscope to actually see it.

[siunevada]

I did see him speak about the book on CSPAN2 and found his views on the Peloponnesian War fascinating.

I thought his declining to answer to the paranoid schizophrenic caller was good. 'It's my policy not to respond. We're living in alternate universes; nothing I say can convince you.'

[Alice au Wonderland]

Ping.

Read the article. I suspect that you could go to town on this one!

[rightinthemiddle]

Has The American Conservative become so elitist that it has nothing in common with many of us on FR? Buchanan and his ilk have become narrow in mind and shallow of thought.

Elitist Defeatists. They do have much in common with the Left.

[NeoCaveman]

Gary Brecher writes the War Nerd column for the eXile, a Moscow-based weekly newspaper.

This was my favorite line of the article. It works on many, many levels.

[AHerald]

Doesn't even make an half-hearted attempt to pose as a serious factual rebuttal of VDH's work. Mostly infantile mud-throwing emotional assertions and silly ad hominem. Intellectual equivalent of spitting.

[Cicero]

American Conservative Magazine is neither American nor Conservative, except in the most distorted meaning of the words.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I've always blamed Buchanon for 2000 -- if he hadn't been on the ballot, all those people in Palm Beach would have "accidentally" voted for Bush instead of Buchanon, the election wouldn't have been close, AND it wouldn't have been obvious that people voted wrong.

[altura]

My sister told the story of the academic who claimed he read a little Thucydides every night before bed. His colleague said, "He takes whiskey before retiring--why call it Thucydides?"

I think this dude wants to trash Victor? why bring in Thucydides?

[BigSkyFreeper]

The American Conservative endorsed John Kerry. That should tell you all you need to know about this magazine.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

This Gary Brecher is sure one long winded son of a ....um....gun.

He could have saved all that typing with a simple..."I HATE VDH and am jealous of his success!"

Maybe he's payed by the word. WHo knows?

[robowombat]

Not really leftist. They almost uniformly despise big intrusive government, wish to reduce the US global footprint dramatically not due to feeling the US is evil but because they believe global ambitions lead to evil ends and it is just none of our particular interests what Arabs or Chinese do to one another if they leave us alone (9-11 is a big embarrassment for these folks. The Arabs did come to visit.) They are interested in Americans tending their own garden and the armed forces being used to keep foreigners out rather than bringing the blessings of parliamentary government to Iraq and maybe soon Syria.