Some new writing has been published today on our site. Essays include "Imagining Conservatism in a New Light," by Daniel Larison, "Tantae Molis Erat : Griswold Revisited," by Paul Seaton, and "Christian Humanism, Past and Present," by Dan Knauss. "With Every Head Bowed," by T.S. Beckett is the winner of our joint short fiction contest with faith *in* fiction. And we have a passel of poems from Elizabeth Bailie, Matthew Browning, Max Heine, and Sam Kean.
Coinciding with the February 21 release of National Review alum and Dallas Morning News columnist Rod Dreher's much anticipated book, Crunchy Cons (which contains a chapter on The New Pantagruel and its editor-in-chief, Caleb Stegall), The National Review Online is launching a blog on Tuesday morning that is dedicated to discussing the book. (Rod will be on the air tomorrow as well, discussing his book and the blog on Bill Bennett's radio show, Morning in America.) At the NRO blog, Stegall will join with Dreher, Kathryn Jean Lopez, some NRO regulars, and other guest bloggers for a lively discussion on conservatism and its future in light of Dreher's arguments.
Some of the other guest contributors to will include TNP & ISI Books editor Jeremy Beer; past TNP contributor and senior fellow at The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Bruce Frohnen; Catholic author and blog maven, Amy Welborn; GodSpy publisher and editor, Angelo Matera; Orthodox religion and culture writer Frederica Matthews Green; Touchstone senior editor and author David Mills; and political writer and editorial analyst for The Atlantic Monthly, Ross Douthat. We hope you tune in. Comments and questions can be sent to the participants, and reader responses will be considered for inclusion in the discussion.
As "crunchy cons" or at least non-neoconservative conservatives with varying degrees of opposition to the US intervention in Iraq, this estimable group of guest writers will probably generate some interesting dialogue with committed neocon NRO regulars, one of whom took a rain-check on TNP's challenge in 2001 to a lumber-jack style wrestling match after The New York Times' David Kirkpatrick suggested TNP as an heir-apparent of the National Review of William F. Buckley. It is an interesting moment for this discussion, as neocon architect Francis Fukuyama has just pronounced the movement dead in the Times.
If your interest is piqued, you can read more about (and purchase) Rod's book at Amazon.com: Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of countercultural conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party).
--Dan Knauss, Associate & Design Editor, The New Pantagruel
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