Archive for Jim Christie
At Home, But Hardly Alone
Jim Christie is an Oakland, California, writer. His review of Reclaiming the American Right appeared in the June issue of The Freeman. Any time the leaders and followers of certain causes—like, say, civil rights, gay rights, and abortion rights—descend on Washington, D.C., flexing their political muscle, those who may be opposed, indifferent, and just plain [...]
1Aug1994 | Jim Christie | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement by Justin Raimondo
Center for Libertarian Studies • 1993 • 287 pages • $17.95 (includes postage) According to Old Right, paleoconserva-tive columnist Pat Buchanan: “To understand the new rifts on the Right, scholars have begun to research its history, to explore its roots. Latest to do so is a San Francisco writer, Justin Raimondo of the Mises Institute. [...]
1Jun1994 | Jim Christie | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Culture Wars: the Struggle to Define America by James Davison
Hunter Basic Books, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022 • 1991 • 416 pages • $25.00 cloth Environmentalists align with homosexuals, flag burners with gun control advocates. Evangelicals align with Catholics and orthodox Jews, pro-life advocates do the same with capital punishment backers. Welcome to just part of the new, if confusing, alliance [...]
1Jun1992 | Jim Christie | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Out Of The Barrio: Toward A New Politics Of Hispanic Assimilation by Linda Chavez
Basic Books, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022 • 1991 • 288 pages • $22.95 cloth Linda Chavez has earned a reputation as an opponent of Hispanic policy-oriented groups that equate civil fights with government entitlements of one kind or another. Her stand against bilingual education, for example, hardly endears her to pro-entitlement [...]
1May1992 | Jim Christie | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby by Stephen L. Carter
Basic Books, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022 • 1991 • 286 pages • $22.95 doth In Clarence Thomas, most Americans discovered a political and philosophical oddity, a “black conservative” with reservations about affirmative action. Stephen Carter, a constitutional law expert at Yale Law School, describes how such labeling limits honest and constructive [...]
1Mar1992 | Jim Christie | 2 comments | Continued-
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