Subject: RE: Conservatism, libertarianism, and humor |
From: "Jacob Sullum" <jsullum@sbcglobal.net> |
Date: 6/23/10, 15:39 |
To: "'Barrett Brown'" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Thanks for your query, which I have forwarded to the editors who
decide whether to solicit articles.
Jacob
Sullum
Senior
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From: Barrett Brown
[mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 4:18 PM
To: jsullum@reason.com
Subject: Conservatism, libertarianism, and humor
Jacob -
This is Barrett Brown; I'm a regular contributor to Vanity
Fair, The Huffington Post, The Onion, Skeptic, The Skeptical Inquirer, and a
few other outlets, and my second book (which covers the failures of such
pundits as Thomas Friedman and Charles Krauthammer) is set for release in
August.
I noticed that Reason recently explored the issue of
the conservative versus libertarian take on literature and wondered if you
might might have use for a piece examining conservatism's failure as of
late to produce any quality political humor relative to just ten years ago, and
what this may tell us about the state of the conservative movement in this
country. Specifically, I'd be pointing to the example of P.J. O'Rourke, who was
once among the finest political humorists in American history but who has been
seemingly unable to produce anything except ham-fisted boilerplate over the
past seven or eight years - concurrently, it seems, with the intellectual
decline of the movement itself. I would also point to certain counterexamples,
such as South Park and King of the Hill, both of which successfully attack the
excesses of liberalism, but which do so from a more libertarian or Goldwater
Republican standpoint (hence the coining of the term South Park Conservative a
few years back).
Let me know if this idea interests you.
--
Regards,
Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302
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