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 \u201cPostmodern Conservatism\u201d was just James Poulos\u2019 idiosyncrasy), Front Porch Republic (small town communitarian).
\n\nIt 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 \u201cwhite ethnic\u201d 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\u2019s always VDare.
\n\nSince then they all changed their look, some of them their style. Takimag\u2019s now younger and more Derbyshireish \u201cdissident right\u201d. (As awful as Vice without McInnes is, McInnes without Vice\u2026 ick)
\n\nI 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)
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