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Three recommendations and some honourable mentions

ver at ISIs Intercollegiate Review, theres a post by Joseph Cunningham


suggesting eight publications you should be reading. In September I came
up with a handful of suggestions of what blogs or websites readers ought to take
note of, particularly if they exist in the Catholic/traditionalist/conservative
realm so difficult to sum up in a single word or term.

The Josias
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Of course, most of
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Opus Publicum
Conservative Blog for Peace
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Eunomia
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Patum Peperium
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The Sybarite
Jury Box
Curated Secrets

who I proffered herein, including some actually alive), but while Chesterton
described tradition as the democracy of the dead we would be remiss to carry
forth in ignorance of the living.
Publications wise, then, what is the well-read gent, or lady, reading? Ive judged
this question by what Ive managed to persuade/force/intimidate my friends
into subscribing to or buying, as well as by my own habits.

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This fortnightly review is one of the last places where long-form essays
are still the norm. One of the adventures of starting to read a piece in
the LRB is that one has no idea whether it will continue for two of the
Review s large pages, or six, or maybe more. In addition to intellectual
essays it also contains occasional reporting from Patrick Cockburn,
arguably the best journalist reporting on the Middle East today. (You can
read my review of Cockburns latest book over at Quadrapheme.)
Is it left-wing? Unquestionably. But if youre only reading what you

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already agree with, youre missing the point. Your principles should be
strong enough to face challenges, or to be informed by them, and the
ability to separate the wheat from the chaff is the most necessary task
for any thinking person.

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The New Criterion


This American monthly came in for a lot of flak from a lot of
conservative intellectuals for propagating and defending the neo-con
support for the Iraq War, but the Daily Telegraphs description of The
New Criterion as Americas leading review of the arts and intellectual
life remains true to this day. (Disclosure: I was an editor at TNC from
2006-2008.) Feature articles are informative and expanding, the book
reviews provide a good guide for reading, and art-wise Ive always
admired the clean prose of James Paneros Gallery chronicle.
In recent months New Criterion readers have had the privilege of
learning about the Jesuit linguist Albert Jammes hatred for sleep I
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Mantuas expensive interest in female dwarves while last year they


published the Quaker pacifist classical scholar Sarah Ruden on the
darker side of Mandelas government. Worth reading every month.

Modern Age
Founded in 1957 by Russell Kirk the greatest St Andrean of the
twentieth century Modern Age is an academic journal which Wikipedia
describes as traditionalist, localist, against most military interventions,
as well as critical of neo-conservatism and generally sympathetic to
religious orthodoxy.
Its archive over the past sixty years provides articles and essays of
great value by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Virgil Nemoianu, Lee Congdon,
Pierre Manent, and others. Take, for example, Lee Congdon on
Conservatism, Christianity, and the Revitalization of Europe.
A rewarding, more scholarly read, with footnotes that will lead you
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These three will prove worthwhile reading for any intellectual of sound
principles, but are there any other honourable mentions?
My weekly workplace reads are Th e Spectator and The Economist which
are useful for keeping tabs on things in general.
I have to admit I do read Monocle every month. While its aimed at wealthy
jetsetters rather than our own constituency of cosmopolitan conservatives living
in genteel poverty the magazine nonetheless combines an exacting stylistic
excellence with an admirably broad focus.
First Things I would read every month but it doesnt seem to be available
anywhere in London except by subscription.
Two or three times a year I pick up The Art Newspaper, another superbly
put-together periodical. Fr Christopher Colven of St James, Spanish Place,
writes for it often, as it happens.

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This post was published on Friday, April 17th, 2015 1:56 pm. It has been categorised under
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Charles A.
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Cosmopolitan conservatives living in genteel poverty! Perfect!

17 April 2015
2:55 pm

L Gaylord Clark
17 April 2015
9:09 pm

L Gaylord Clark
17 April 2015
10:21 pm

Alexander Shaw
23 April 2015
3:31 pm

L Gaylord Clark
24 April 2015
9:24 pm

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For those who read French, Catholica is the best traditionalist


journal in any language, and for those who read German, Junge
Freiheit is just about the only seriously conservative journal
theyve got.

PS: You are wrong about reading the enemy you know. Today it
is all chaff and there is no sifting to be done.
Stick to the classics of the Western Canon, and to their
appreciative interpreters.
Life is to short for anything else.

Nice, but you left out Takimag! What the hell, Cusack?
TAKIMAG! Gaylord, mate, we all appreciate your heads up on the
Western Canon (a sun-deck favourite of my own, as it happens
especially now that theyve brought it out in paperback).

Amusing as always Mr Shaw, but lets not give even the hint of a
nod to the idea that Professor Bloom dreamt up the idea of the
canon himself. Precisely one of those appreciative interpreters
I was recommending, yes, but even there not perhaps the best.
And yes, Takimag is excellent, its best contributors being Taki
himself, Theodore Dalrymple, and the magnificently anti PC John
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Derbyshire, particularly his Saturday evening radio excursions


into enemy territory, during which no prisoners are ever taken.

Samuel J. Howard
27 April 2015
9:33 pm

Ive been listening to some of Monocles podcasts recently,


particularly Midori House, which is pretty good.

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