Articles by Daniel McCarthy

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Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice?

Nope. Daniel McCarthy on Sarah Palin.

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9/3/2008

To Become an Educated Ron Paulian

Read these books, says Daniel McCarthy.

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3/18/2008

The Authoritarian Movement

Daniel McCarthy on the conservatives.

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6/30/2006

The Age of Jackson (Again)

Daniel McCarthy on executive power.

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3/30/2006

Neocon Myths About Barry Goldwater

Daniel McCarthy on the attempt to make him a Bushite.

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2/17/2006

The Libertarian-Conservative Debate

Daniel McCarthy reports from the front lines.

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3/17/2005

Alexander the Neocon

Daniel McCarthy on the mass murderer and his movie.

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11/29/2004

Bushism Must Go

Daniel McCarthy on modern American conservatism.

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11/1/2004

Liberventionism for Fun and Profit

Daniel McCarthy on the libertarian hawks.

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9/11/2004

Young Men of the Old Right

Daniel McCarthy on the bright, post-Buckley future.

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7/23/2004

Glass in ’04

The New Republic scam artist would make a perfect politician, says Daniel McCarthy.

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11/12/2003

Talent on Loan From Merck

Daniel McCarthy on what's next for the Arnoldian Limbaugh.

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10/7/2003

Contra Kurtz

Daniel McCarthy on neocons, utilitarians, and gay marriage.

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7/31/2003

You’ve Got Taxes!

Daniel McCarthy on another sinister scheme.

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6/13/2003

Empire Without End

Daniel McCarthy on what the ancients have to teach us about the future.

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4/23/2003

Make-Believe Conservatism

Daniel McCarthy on the National Review powergrab.

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3/25/2003

Why They Hate Mencken

And why we love him.

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3/14/2003

An Individualist in Wartime

Do you have to choose sides?

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3/5/2003

Gods and Generals

Daniel McCarthy on an epic for LRC readers – and all who care about real American history.

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2/28/2003

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Except to neocons like Michael Novak. Article by Daniel McCarthy.

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2/11/2003

The Newest WMD

Courtesy, of course, of the federal government and its "defense" contractors.

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2/6/2003

Abortion Is the Health of the State

Daniel McCarthy looks at the pro-life, pro-choice political game.

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1/24/2003

Neocon of the Year

David Frum gets the Poddy.

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1/7/2003

Real Conservatism Means Rothbard

Daniel McCarthy on the old right, the new right, modal libertarians, Rothbard, and Hoppe.

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1/3/2003

Gangs and Government

Daniel McCarthy on 'Gangs of New York' and organized violence.

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12/23/2002

Neocon Groupthink

Daniel McCarthy on why the gang all write alike.

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12/17/2002

How the State Readies Us To Kill

Daniel McCarthy on the propaganda war, and the antidote.

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8/15/2002

Freedom and the Free City

What the ancients knew about an essential aspect of liberty, and why the state targets it.

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8/6/2002

The State Makes an Omelet

What happens when anti-terrorism turns out to resemble terrorism?

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8/2/2002

Poor Professor Pim

Daniel McCarthy on the assassination of the Dutch immigration reformer.

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5/9/2002

Two Teachers of Evil

Daniel McCarthy on neocon statism.

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5/3/2002

Left, Right, and Le Pen

Daniel McCarthy explains.

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4/30/2002

Nothing New Under ‘The Sun’

Daniel McCarthy on the latest neocon news trick.

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4/26/2002

Counterrevolution on Campus

Through Hoppe, etc.

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4/16/2002

Crash Course for Conservatives

Daniel McCarthy on what's wrong with collegiate conservatism, and how to make it right.

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4/5/2002

Neocons vs. Peace

Daniel McCarthy examines Francis Fukayama and Taki on the Great Disaster.

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3/28/2002

Anti-War Conservatism

Daniel McCarthy on the great Robert Nisbet vs. the awful Bill Bennett.

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3/19/2002

Bill Clinton, Conservative of the Future

He is, after all, the perfect neocon.

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1/7/2002

LRC vs. the Sheeple

Standing tall against the neocons and their multiple minions.

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11/8/2001

Springtime for Trotsky

His followers, of one sort or another, constitute the worst warmongers.

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11/6/2001

Who Wants to Die for Liberal Democracy?

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10/30/2001

First the Arabs, Then the Pro-Lifers

Dan McCarthy on the broader federal agenda.

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10/30/2001

Goading Us into War

The terrorists and the neocons share the same goal.

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9/14/2001

Lynching Jesse

The best thing about Sen. Helms gets him hanged by the media.

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9/4/2001

Misplaced Faith

Daniel McCarthy on religion, big business, traditionalists, and the Bush administration.

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8/25/2001

How Much Police Brutality Is Enough?

Daniel McCarthy on the neocons vs. liberty (as usual).

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7/20/2001

Patriot Socialists (and Neocons)

There's nothing wrong, says Daniel McCarthy, if you don't want to pledge allegiance to the federal flag.

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7/10/2001

Anarcho-Conservatism

It's wrong to be a left-libertarian; it's wrong to be a statist conservative. Only one position makes sense, says Daniel McCarthy.

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7/7/2001

Are You a Neocon?

A libertarian? A conservative? A paleoconservative? A paleolibertarian? Take Daniel McCarthy's fascinating test.

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6/26/2001

Winning a Battle, Losing the War

Daniel McCarthy on why the legalization of medical marijuana may not be a step towards the end of the drug war.

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6/7/2001