Discussed in this episode
Editor Charles Kesler and Associate Editor Spencer Klavan discuss the stimulating new winter 2022/23 CRB. Listen in for reflections on Dr. Kesler’s own editor’s note and the speech from which it was adapted, discussing the continuity between today’s “New Right” and the young conservative movement of the 1950s and ’60s. Plus: a survey of ten more CRB essays, covering topics from Benjamin Netanyahu’s autobiography to the LGTQQIAAP2S+ movement, and a teaser for the next can’t-miss episode of The Close Read.
Discussed Articles
All the Lawns Are Brown
Crisis politics and the California drought.
After Manliness
The age of LGBTQIA.
The Disputed Question Winter 2022/23
Mark Helprin and Michael Anton on the war in Ukraine.
The Containment of George Kennan
George Kennan shared more opinions with today’s populist Right than with the contemporary Left.
The Churchill of the Middle East
Benjamin Netanyahu's autobiography is one of history’s great Zionist texts.
Two New Rights Do Not Make a Wrong
Today's New Right can learn something from yesterday's new conservatives.