A Thank You to The Folks Who Made This Site Possible
Whether this is going to be a fallow season for The American Scene, or its end, or if there will be new posts up tomorrow (for a site with PEG and John Schwenkler and Matt Feeney would be formidable!), I have no idea, but it strikes me as an appropriate moment to offer a few thank yous:
– To Reihan Salam, for somehow managing to attract a constellation of writers who would collectively orbit no one but him, and for permitting me the privilege of taking part.
– To everyone who began blogging here at the beginning, especially Ross Douthat, whose approach to public discourse has been a model to me and many others, even when he was just starting out.
– To Matt Frost, for keeping the site running.
– To the writers with whom I shared TAS: James Poulos and Peter Suderman (Culture11 never would’ve existed as it did if not for this site), Alan Jacobs, Noah Millman, Jim Manzi, Matt Feeney, John Schwenkler, Matt Frost, PEG, Reihan, and briefly, David Sessions, Graeame Wood and Dara Lind. I’d pay to read any of you, and it’s been such a pleasure to share digital space with your work, I hope not for the last time. (After I post this I will pay to read Alan Jacobs, whose latest project is available for purchase — go here for a description).
Since I may well post again myself one day (how long I’ve had a short story in mind for this space that I haven’t had time to finish), I’ll refrain from making this any longer, except to say that TAS has meant so much to me that I don’t think I’ll be up for articulating just how much for a very long time. In closing, thanks to some of the commenters too.
So cool post!
— essay help · Jan 19, 11:41 AM · #
I owe this site and it’s writers a debt of gratitude. Thanks!
— David Ryan · Jan 19, 01:00 PM · #
Thanks, TAS crew. This has always been one of the most thought-provoking sites, and I’ve looked forward to arriving over the years.
Thanks too to the commenters. Some of you were insightful, some brilliant, some obtuse, some insane, but I’ve loved talking to you all.
— J Mann · Jan 19, 03:19 PM · #
I’ve been reading since it was Ross+Reihan TAS 1.0 and am now lucky enough to know several of you. It’s sad to see TAS slow down lately but glad that it’s because people have gone on to bigger things. I’ll still always think of this as the TAS group, even if it’s scattered across a diaspora of NYT, NRO, Atlantic, Business Insider, Ricochet, The American Conservative, etc, etc
— gabriel · Jan 20, 03:04 AM · #
Maybe this website can just devote itself to figuring out who is Trig’s mother?
— y81 · Jan 20, 04:54 AM · #
It’s been gratifying to see everyone move on to bigger things, even though I selfishly wish it were still so easy to follow all of you. thanks for the great posts in the past, and here’s hoping there’s some interesting or worthwhile way to use TAS in the future.
— danup · Jan 20, 05:58 AM · #
Thanks for the memories, TAS. I have always appreciated the thoughtful posts here at The Scene, and I look forward to following you at your new sites.
P.S. Who gets custody of Chet?
— Kate Marie · Jan 20, 11:29 PM · #
very good post! need to say you did a great job and i really appreciate it! thank u
— milfs like it big · Jan 21, 05:55 PM · #
Whenever people talk about the shallowness of internet culture, I always respond by citing TAS. RIP.
— Will · Jan 22, 01:18 AM · #
Both this post and these comments are a perfect coda.
— Freddie · Jan 22, 02:46 PM · #
Oh, for crying out loud, folks, knock it off. Frost is still around, probably with another fiction exposition ‘round the corner, and Reihan has not yet begun, really, to explore werewolf-themed literature, to cite just one example.
— Kieselguhr Kid · Jan 23, 01:14 AM · #
FYI folks, I still pop up now and then at dotCommonweal (www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog) when I can find time in between teaching, grading, and writing papers.
— John Schwenkler · Jan 23, 03:11 PM · #
Don’t leave us…..I love you guys!
— Nick · Jan 25, 02:31 AM · #
hahahaha!
i learned a LOT here to— i learned that im a flaming liberal.
Following the pattern of Culture 11, the last decarian math of intelligent conservatism is now overrun by the ‘slines of the conservative base.
wallah, Conor, since im your Cassandra…here is the future.
Soon, the only election issue that will matter is demographcs, and the fact that the GOP base is 50% WEC and 99% white and “christian”.
Soon, the racebaiting-free-market-gawd-n-country radar chaff you toss out to fool the ‘slines won’t matter a whit.
Demographics is destiny.
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— academic writers needed · Jan 27, 08:52 PM · #
and here is my tribute to Ross n Reihan.
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— matoko_chan · Jan 29, 02:59 PM · #