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    The Great American Conservative Commentators

    For those here with a conservative bent, or for anyone who might be in the know on conservative politics, who are the current high-profile intellectual commentators out there? I have been largely unsatisfied by the work of those that I have read - William Kristol, Ross Douthat, Peggy Noonan. Ann Coulter is smart, no doubt, but much too acerbic and purposefully polarizing to be taken seriously. George Will is perhaps the only conservative commentator that I respect for his reasonableness and intelligence, but I also haven't read his stuff in a while, so maybe he isn't as appealing, reasonable, or intelligent as I remember.

    Who holds the mantle of William F. Buckley as the top conservative commentator out there?
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    Originally posted by I.J. Reilly View Post
    For those here with a conservative bent, or for anyone who might be in the know on conservative politics, who are the current high-profile intellectual commentators out there? I have been largely unsatisfied by the work of those that I have read - William Kristol, Ross Douthat, Peggy Noonan. Ann Coulter is smart, no doubt, but much too acerbic and purposefully polarizing to be taken seriously. George Will is perhaps the only conservative commentator that I respect for his reasonableness and intelligence, but I also haven't read his stuff in a while, so maybe he isn't as appealing, reasonable, or intelligent as I remember.

    Who holds the mantle of William F. Buckley as the top conservative commentator out there?
    My vote would be for George Will or Charles Krautheimer.

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        Originally posted by byu71 View Post
        My vote would be for George Will or Charles Krautheimer.
        Will is better than Krauthammer. I think both are intelligent, but Will is more sensible and seems less ideological than Krauthammer.
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            Originally posted by I.J. Reilly View Post
            For those here with a conservative bent, or for anyone who might be in the know on conservative politics, who are the current high-profile intellectual commentators out there? I have been largely unsatisfied by the work of those that I have read - William Kristol, Ross Douthat, Peggy Noonan. Ann Coulter is smart, no doubt, but much too acerbic and purposefully polarizing to be taken seriously. George Will is perhaps the only conservative commentator that I respect for his reasonableness and intelligence, but I also haven't read his stuff in a while, so maybe he isn't as appealing, reasonable, or intelligent as I remember.

            Who holds the mantle of William F. Buckley as the top conservative commentator out there?
            No one has filled Buckley's shoes, but Krauthammer is definitely tops right now.

            LOL on Noonan. After getting sucked into the Obama cult back in 08 she lost all conservative cred. Great writer but too easily snookered.

            Will is ok, but he's always been a little boring.
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            • #7
              I don't think there are any great conservative columnists out there right now in the mold of WFB, but there are a lot of very good ones. NRO is probably the best site for current, mainstream conservative thought. Some of the contributors there are excellent; Krauthammer, Kudlow, Goldberg, Nordlinger, Lowry and VDH. That said, the site/mag aren't perfect and they do have some flat-out bad columnists.

              Walter Williams is one of the columnists that I used to always read. He's very free-market oriented and preaches libertarian thought, but in a pretty funny way. I like when he addresses himself in a column. It's been a while since I've read him though so I don't know where he is now. IIRC, he used to be syndicated.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by YOhio
                NRO is probably the best site for current, mainstream conservative thought.
                +1

                i just renewed my subscription. definitely worth the $30.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by YOhio View Post
                  Walter Williams is one of the columnists that I used to always read. He's very free-market oriented and preaches libertarian thought, but in a pretty funny way. I like when he addresses himself in a column. It's been a while since I've read him though so I don't know where he is now. IIRC, he used to be syndicated.
                  Agreed about Williams. Thomas Sowell is another good conservative columnist. You can both at townhall.com, though Williams is considered a contributor rather than columnist these days.
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                  • #10
                    I am very pleased to say that nobody has mentioned Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc...

                    I am a big fan of both Sowell and Williams. Jonah Goldberg produces some high-quality content, and can be quite funny. As Camleish mentioned, David Horowitz is also a good read. (p.s. Cam, I LOVE the your Robert Johnson avatar - that dude was a Blues wizard.)

                    Wesley Pruden is enjoyable to read due to his take-no-prisoners mentality backed by a rather sharp wit.

                    I remember a short column Pruden wrote a few years ago regarding the interesting dichotomy between active LDS members wishing for Mitt Romney to win based on (the outward appearance of) his policies, while simultaneously remaining secretly terrified of having an active Mormon in the White House because it could bring a new round of attacks on personal religious beliefs.

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                    • #11
                      I echo the comments on Sowell and Williams - as an aside you can sometimes hear Williams as a guest host for Rush - the only time I listen to the program

                      I also like Will becasue he is a big baseball fan - his book on baseball is very very good.

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