Joshua Tait
@joshuatait.bsky.social
PhD in US history from UNC | Writes about the history of conservatism and conservative thought | Irenic | joshua.a.tait at gmail dot com | https://joshuatait.substack.com
Conservatives have never been hot on the Voting Rights Act.
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Conservatives have never been hot on the Voting Rights Act.
The lesser known Peter Tosh single
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The lesser known Peter Tosh single
This sentence, which begins "Furthermore, once Ronald Reagan..." is so weird. "Ascended" is weird framing that obscures any activity or causality to Reagan's election, and I frankly don't know how an ideology "affirms itself." A strange mysticism permeates this analysis.
September 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This sentence, which begins "Furthermore, once Ronald Reagan..." is so weird. "Ascended" is weird framing that obscures any activity or causality to Reagan's election, and I frankly don't know how an ideology "affirms itself." A strange mysticism permeates this analysis.
Caveat emptor: reads like a high school book report.
September 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Caveat emptor: reads like a high school book report.
The first ever CPAC was totally different from the present.
September 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The first ever CPAC was totally different from the present.
I’m such a dweeb.
September 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I’m such a dweeb.
Opposition to Obergefell on the Right. A sleeping giant of an issue or a sleeping dog they'll let lie?
September 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Opposition to Obergefell on the Right. A sleeping giant of an issue or a sleeping dog they'll let lie?
Maria von Trapp (of Sound of Music fame): not excited about Brent Bozell's magazine, Triumph.
August 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Maria von Trapp (of Sound of Music fame): not excited about Brent Bozell's magazine, Triumph.
Patricia Buckley Bozell trying to slap Ti-Grace Atkinson, Catholic University of America, 1971, over Atkinson calling the Virgin Mary "knocked up" and "knocked down with no clues."
August 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Patricia Buckley Bozell trying to slap Ti-Grace Atkinson, Catholic University of America, 1971, over Atkinson calling the Virgin Mary "knocked up" and "knocked down with no clues."
I love the Abundance taxonomy and graphic, but a misplaced tap of the Enter key has made it unintentionally scathing toward libs.
August 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I love the Abundance taxonomy and graphic, but a misplaced tap of the Enter key has made it unintentionally scathing toward libs.
I hadn't seen the full-page ad from Brent Bozell and Fred Wilhelmsen's summer school before. What a curriculum, in some ways very forward-looking. And, boy, check out the "European Historical Experience" section.
August 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I hadn't seen the full-page ad from Brent Bozell and Fred Wilhelmsen's summer school before. What a curriculum, in some ways very forward-looking. And, boy, check out the "European Historical Experience" section.
Allen Tate on weekend traditionalists.
August 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Allen Tate on weekend traditionalists.
Seward Collins, the pro-fascist editor of the American Review, on his anti-Semitic turn. One feels it is instructive on the present moment.
August 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Seward Collins, the pro-fascist editor of the American Review, on his anti-Semitic turn. One feels it is instructive on the present moment.
I finally tracked this academics for Nixon ad down. An interesting bunch willing to publicly go to bat for Nixon. You can see the Kristol influence - although Nathan Glazer and James Q. Wilson refused. Funny seeing Leo Strauss on there.
August 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I finally tracked this academics for Nixon ad down. An interesting bunch willing to publicly go to bat for Nixon. You can see the Kristol influence - although Nathan Glazer and James Q. Wilson refused. Funny seeing Leo Strauss on there.
Thanks, Amazon. I get it.
August 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Thanks, Amazon. I get it.
I remember very clearly that Mark Steyn had - maybe still has - a talking point about how conservatives are more healthy than liberals because they have hobbies and a whole life outside politics.
August 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I remember very clearly that Mark Steyn had - maybe still has - a talking point about how conservatives are more healthy than liberals because they have hobbies and a whole life outside politics.
Gonna try out this buzzy novel I keep reading about.
August 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Gonna try out this buzzy novel I keep reading about.
“It stands for My Source News Opinion World, Lemon. It takes the jibber jabber of algorithmic news and puts it on linear television.”
August 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“It stands for My Source News Opinion World, Lemon. It takes the jibber jabber of algorithmic news and puts it on linear television.”
Irving Kristol on NOT being interviewed for Playboy.
August 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Irving Kristol on NOT being interviewed for Playboy.
See, a) I want to get a thousand of these to use for my mail forever and b) I actually think it looks OK! Maybe I would have based it on the one Lee Edwards had on his cover from the same shoot.
August 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
See, a) I want to get a thousand of these to use for my mail forever and b) I actually think it looks OK! Maybe I would have based it on the one Lee Edwards had on his cover from the same shoot.
The answer both now and in 1959 is West Coast Straussians.
August 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The answer both now and in 1959 is West Coast Straussians.
Peter Viereck, briefly, on his type of conservatism and why Russell Kirk and Henry Regnery don't fit.
August 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Peter Viereck, briefly, on his type of conservatism and why Russell Kirk and Henry Regnery don't fit.