Few years ago a few webmags representing different strains of sidestream conservatism showed up all at once - Takimag (aristocratic), AltRight (white identitarian), Culture11 (quickly shuttered after it became clear “Postmodern Conservatism” was just James Poulos’ idiosyncrasy), Front Porch Republic (small town communitarian).

It might just have been the CMS of the time but you noticed their front pages all looked a bit like a reskinned AmCon, which was itself isolationist paleocon with Christian “white ethnic” tones. And you saw some overlap in content. That godawful fanboyish cultural history of modern Metal at AltRight got repackaged for Takimag, for one. FPR also shades into the preexisting popery of First Things, and of course there’s always VDare.

Since then they all changed their look, some of them their style. Takimag’s now younger and more Derbyshireish “dissident right”. (As awful as Vice without McInnes is, McInnes without Vice… ick)

I always wondered what the deal was there, who was paying for all this. But who knows? (I bet Unz, Buchanan, and Sailer do, for one)