New Ventures
A bit of home news: I’ve just signed on as a regular blogger at The American Conservative. My current page is here. I still expect to post here now and again, but that’s going to be the main outlet for most of my blogging, for the time being anyway.
Millman’s Shakesblog is going to continue for a little while longer where it currently lives, and then it’s also going to migrate over to TAC, after they revamp their site, which should be done in about a month. I’m particularly excited about doing more cultural coverage – writing about books, movies and the arts generally, not just about theatre – which is an area where they are keen to expand (so they say now).
I’ve very much enjoyed the comraderie of TAS, but, to be frank, that comraderie has been thin on the ground of late, what with everyone moving on to bigger venues. TAC is a place where – they say – I can think and say what I like. That matters a great deal to me, and it’s surprisingly rare in the opinion journalism space.
It’s a venture I’m quite excited about, and I look forward to hearing from you all there.
In other home news, I’m mapping out my fourth screenplay, as well as doing another round of revisions on my second (working title, “Goshen United”) and a number of other promising developments on that front. Needless to say, if there’s any really exceptional news, I’ll be sure to let folks know here about that as well.
Even though TAS has already been going dark in many respects, I hope it is joining the protest against SOPA and that it will go dark for 24 hours Wednesday.
— The Reticulator · Jan 18, 03:07 AM · #
Where’s the RSS feed?
— Kieselguhr Kid · Jan 18, 01:19 PM · #
Note to The American Conservative: Noah Millman voted for Barack Obama and plans to do so again. Just for the record. No one can vote for Obama twice and call himself a conservative.
Hope and Change. Incredible.
— jd · Jan 18, 02:13 PM · #
JD is living proof of Andrew Sullivan’s most recent cover story.
— Chet · Jan 18, 02:56 PM · #
RSS: www.theamericanconservative.com/millman/feed/
jd: I made that record plain in my very first post on the site. They don’t seem to have a problem with it.
— Noah Millman · Jan 18, 07:26 PM · #
Noah:
If you’re young and you’re not liberal you have no heart; if you’re old and you’re not conservative, you have no brain. Or something like that.
So you’re moving against the normal progression.
After reading your first post at TAC, I can only attribute your change of heart and mind to feeling guilty for the obscene amounts of money you no doubt made. I have also observed that neocons were only conservative in their lust for blood and revenge. I say were because it seems that most of them are no more. They never really understood. Because, again, no one who has any understanding of conservatism could vote for Obama twice.
You wrote:
It’s obvious that whatever that is now, it was never conservatism.
— jd · Jan 18, 10:18 PM · #
jd is a dick, of course, but I have a question that I suppose is in a similar vein: are you a conservative, Noah?
— Freddie · Jan 19, 01:23 AM · #
Whoops, look like you addressed that in your inaugural post.
— Freddie · Jan 19, 01:27 AM · #
“I am now extremely critical both of the foreign policy views I used to hold and of the industry in which I used to work. I’m fairly aware of the critical arguments from the left. This magazine is the natural home of critical arguments from the right on these two issues.”
Actually, TAC is not the natural home of “critical argument from the right” since TAC’s arguments, such as they are, boil down to lefty talking points (‘we need to regulate Wall Street’, ‘neocons bad’, ‘Israel bad’, ‘our hawkishness will upset our allies’, etc., etc.) The magazine was formed in a fit of rage against the neocons and against capitalism. Other than the occasional Sailer or Derbyshire review, TAC is a joke and jd is absolutely right — Noah will fit right in with Rod, Daniel and all the rest of the liberals masquerading as conservatives over there. I just wonder how long Unz is going to keep that little project going…I know political magazines don’t do big business, but a circulation of under 10K seems low by anyone’s standards…
— Fake Herzog · Jan 19, 04:16 AM · #
Congratulations Noah. I’ve enjoyed reading your work and have also admired your unflappable collegiality. I will check out your new site.
So what happens to TAS now? Is it just the Jim Manzi show? Maybe it could just be one long permanently open thread. Or maybe it’s time to make JD and Chet co-stars and bring their experimental theater to the forefront.
— cw · Jan 19, 05:27 AM · #
I take it “The American Conservative” is a site for people who cannot imagine ever voting for a Republican. I won’t be reading anything with so much “epistemic closure,” but have fun!
— y81 · Jan 20, 04:57 AM · #
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— lgonhpcqqt · Jan 20, 05:07 AM · #
“So what happens to TAS now? Is it just the Jim Manzi show? Maybe it could just be one long permanently open thread. Or maybe it’s time to make JD and Chet co-stars and bring their experimental theater to the forefront.”
O Dark Master, TAS is now as dead as Culture 11.
there is no PROFIT in intelligent conservatism.
the demographic timer is simply the stake in the heart of conservatism.
the rest is silence.
— matoko_chan · Jan 30, 12:21 PM · #