Six months before the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003, Paul W. Bush’s.” Though it would be justified, “Main Street Conservatism” is less a victory lap than an articulation of the continued relevance of TAC’s emphasis on “ideas over ideology,” exploring four broad issues on which TAC has proved remarkably prescient: foreign policy, American culture, political economy, and faith and family. David Frum at National Review labeled TAC’s founding editors “Unpatriotic Conservatives.” The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol publicly expressed his disdain for Buchanan, whom he described as representing “the peasants.” Max Boot, who now risibly calls himself a “former conservative,” accused Iraq War skeptics of antisemitism.Īnd yet, as Doak observes in the preface, “The Republican Party in 2022 much more closely resembles Pat Buchanan’s vision than George W. Not that others in the conservative movement were particularly supportive of TAC’s mission. “We believe conservatism to be the most natural political tendency, rooted in man’s taste for the familiar, for family, for faith in God,” wrote Founding Editor Scott McConnell in the editorial of the inaugural issue of the magazine in October 2002. Two decades later, The American Conservative has published “ Main Street Conservatism: The Future of the Right,” a collection of essays edited by Executive Director Emile Doak and Senior Editor Helen Andrews, proving how far ahead of the times TAC truly was. A classmate pointed me to a little-known magazine, founded by the great populist conservative Pat Buchanan, which, my friend suggested, might bring clarity to my political uncertainty and orient me toward a more coherent brand of conservatism. At the time, I was an undergrad at the University of Virginia, possessing many conservative impulses but unsure of where I stood in those early years of the global war on terror. ![]() It would not be an overstatement to say I’ve been waiting for this book for almost 20 years.
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