Think about the folks who are making waves today on the intellectual Right, and doing great and interesting work—not only in writing columns, but creating new ventures and campaigns. Almost everyone has a Claremont connection.
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We’re also far more interesting and complex personalities. Yes, provocative. But we’re not dull. We have something to say on a wide range of subjects—and people notice.
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Here’s what sets us apart most, tho—and it’s crucial: Unlike almost everyone else on the American Right, we don’t agree with the left in their contention that everyone 1 or 2 clicks to *our* right are demons who represent the far greater threat to the country—
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And that policing that line, and making sure we are the final, most-rightward place on the map of political respectability is our greatest task. Or at least, the task with which we bring our fiercest energies.
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Think about how the old, establishment voices who were once prominent on the intellectual Right attack us—We are dangerous; we are anti-American; we are hateful and immoderate.
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It’s like an old mapmaker who writes, of the undiscovered country, “HERE BE MONSTERS.” The idea animating there gatekeeping impulse is that, beyond our own particular position, there is a great threat beyond imagination that must be snuffed out.
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And that's just Charles Kesler.
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Ssshhh angry baseball is talking.
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When will Anton meet
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