Reason Writers Around Town

In a special issue of The American Conservative, Nick Gillespie takes stock of the conservative movement, of Americans' declining interest in backing either political party, and the ever-high Q-rating of libertarianism. (If Noam Chomsky and William F. Buckley both want to be called "libertarians," you know it's hot.)

And go here for the whole AmCon special-issue megillah, in which folks ranging from Pat Buchanan to Nicholas Von Hoffman to Lew Rockwell to Phyllis Schlafly cogitate on whether the designations "right" and "left" mean anything anymore and whether "a binary Left/Right political spectrum describe[s] the full range of ideological options" available in these United States.