rumitoid

To be a conservative who writes about culture is to exist in hostile occupied territory. I belong to a couple of film critics’ associations and when I meet with fellow film critics I’m nearly always the only conservative in the room. I’m in the same kind of underdog situation when I’m writing about theater, television, music, books, whatever. Like academia, the popular culture is a battlefield that conservatives have largely ceded to the enemy.

Why bother to fight against overwhelming odds? Our founder, William F. Buckley Jr., knew this would be a never-ending struggle — which is why he founded a magazine of politics and culture. It’s vitally important to attend to the culture and maintain conservative commentary on it: offer critique when needed and celebrate what is good and great in music, literature, and the arts.

This is why the Books, Arts & Manners section of NR has been there since the premiere issue back in 1955. Today, sponsored by National Review Institute, it is more robust than ever, with an expanded online section.

Our voices may get drowned out, mocked, ignored. But we must never be silent. Their half of America runs all the major Hollywood studios and the TV networks and the book publishers and the performing-arts institutions and the museums. They are pushing a hard-left cultural agenda on Americans — deriding capitalism, insisting that sex is determined by attitude rather than genetics, browbeating America with Oberlin College–style identity politics, and relabeling the Founding as defined by racism.

Our half of America is represented by a few lonely voices of sanity. I’ve been tearing apart the faulty assumptions, logical holes, shaky grasp of facts, and anti-American values of progressive culture for many years, and I’ll continue to do it for many more.

Colleagues such as Jay Nordlinger, Armond White, Ross Douthat, and Brian T. Allen are doing the same. But those of us who cover culture for National Review need your help. Our power comes from you, the readers who provide the financial resources for us to do what we do best: fight back against the Left and powerfully make the case for our shared principles.

We don’t have a billionaire picking up the bills for us and wouldn’t want one, because we don’t want to be beholden to any one person — neither to his business interests nor to his personal tastes. Instead, each year we reach out to our thousands of donors — patriotic Americans, like you — to ask them to join our cause by giving an end-of-year tax-deductible contribution to National Review Institute.

National Review Institute (NRI) is the nonprofit 501(c)(3) journalistic think tank that complements the NR mission by supporting and promoting National Review’s top talent and the Buckley Legacy — and I’m thrilled to have become an NRI fellow this year. With a donation to NRI, you can support both the overarching mission — to preserve and promote William F. Buckley Jr.’s legacy and advance conservative ideas in the face of overwhelming hostility — and help sustain the magazine and website’s influential writers.

Bill Buckley famously said, “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” We need your help to make sure those other views get their hearing.

We at NRI realize there are other worthy causes that command your attention, but as the many donors who have visited our offices for social functions can attest, we really are a small operation. You could fit all of our staffers in a single medium-sized room. Our world headquarters is a single office suite.

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Together, we’ll keep calling out the lies, distortions, and flawed values of our cultural adversaries, and we’ll do so con gusto. It’s great fun to know that you’re playing a role in some of the central cultural disputes of our time — and to know that you’re on the right side of them.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/massively-outgunned-culture-war-113055773.html

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Culture counts, rumitoid?
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Kevyn

Buckley was without a soul but he at least accepted fact and science to support his ideas and he certainly did not see education and knowledge as an enemy of his ideology. This is no longer the case on the right, thinkers like Buckley and George Will have been replaced with half bright liars and portly dope fiends like Dinesh D'Souza and Rush Limbaugh. What need is there for nuanced discussion when marginally literate racists are all ready won over by a clown leading chants of “lock her up” “build the wall” “drill baby drill” and MAGA? The majority of the rights ideology is dependent on lies such as denials of climate science, a misunderstanding of who benefits from public policy and most importantly the demonization of “other and outsider.” How does one reason with anyone who thinks that a horribly vulgar man who has spent his life cheating people, committed adultery on all three of his wives and is a proven compulsive liar is sent as a gift from God?

dongreen76

That's because to be conservative is to be non-secular.To be conservative is to be Theocratic.The problem here in the Good `Ole` U.S.of A.,is there are a certain sects of so called leaders that uses the concept of conservitism only to serve their not so Altruistic self serving agenda-
under clandestically cloaks of cover,they are just as progressively socially liberal as those that they promulgate as Paganistic,Anarchist Anti-Christes.

Dwight Logan

I have also found discrimination at writing groups with a majority of media members. I have had to defend myself concerning things I have written. When I wrote about my father having been an attorney during the Japanese War Crimes trial, having written the new Japanese Constitution, been appointed by Ike to be the Chief Civilian Negotiator during the Korean Peace Treaty and receiving International peace awards from the Emperor of Japan and Queen Elizabeth. I showed the group the picture oh him wearing the award. One obnoxious Democratic member always called me "Lieing Repub" and when I told tem he was my father he told them I was telling lies again.
At the next meeting I showed them my birth certificate he said anyone can get a copy of a birth certificate. Another member of the media said to him "Doubting Thomas, you brag about your brilliant research abilities and at the next meeting you bring document proof he is not his father. As a matter of fact you can ask me because his father and I have played golf together many times and I know that Dwight is his son. He turned to me and apologized for the behavior of his collegue. He added that I should not write about the time when my faly and I family had our pictures taken in the cell with Tojo, who was the Hitler of Japan. He added that he never wanted my nemises to ever embarass Dwight or me again or you will not luke it." (He was the editor of the paper where the man worked.)
I later joined a Senior Citizen Writing club. After six months the teacher told me that someone in the class had wondered about some of the assignments I wrote about my father and looked my father up on the internet and told him my father was one hell of a great man and contributed greatly toward international rehabitation of Japanese-American relationships.

rumitoid

Did I say that in presenting this article?

rumitoid

Wow. Impressive and succinct. Brilliant synopsis of what we are dealing with. I will steal your last sentence.

rumitoid

Wow, perfect, yes.

rumitoid

Truly sorry for your mistreatment, your father seems a most intelligent, patriotic, and decent man. We need more like him now, and you. Thank you for coming forward. Honestly. A pleasure to meet such distinguished company.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Your title to a thread always unmasks your angle.

rumitoid

Hope so. Straight forward Conservative view. I may not agree with it, yet I presented it unedited for all to judge for themselves.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Buckley was a CFR Neocon.
A fair haired boy of the establishment.

dongreen76

.....and his nemisis Gore Vidal,whom also with his military service was within the system, and therefore was able to give more accurate dissentations of the culture as it really is.

Smedley_buzkill

Once more. It takes more than typing words to create a verisimilitude of erudition. The words must be placed in some sort of logical order also.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

" It takes more than typing words to create a verisimilitude of erudition. The words must be placed in some sort of logical order also."
Don has a problem with that.

dongreen76 wrote:
"That's because to be conservative is to be non-secular.To be conservative is to be Theocratic.The problem here in the Good `Ole` U.S.of A.,is there are a certain sects of so called leaders that uses the concept of conservitism only to serve their not so Altruistic self serving agenda-
under clandestically cloaks of cover,they are just as progressively socially liberal as those that they promulgate as Paganistic,Anarchist Anti-Christes."

All those words to present BS!