{"id":196,"date":"2007-10-07T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T19:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/07\/joe-carter-on-conservatisms-most-influential-media\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T15:36:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T19:36:19","slug":"joe-carter-on-conservatisms-most-influential-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/joe-carter-on-conservatisms-most-influential-media","title":{"rendered":"Joe Carter on Conservatism’s Most Influential Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

While hanging around at The Evangelical Outpost <\/a>this afternoon I discovered this post from April 5, 2007 by Joe Carter:<\/p>\n

What media has had the most influence on the conservative movement over the past forty years?<\/p>\n

Various factions within conservatism will give widely differing responses. The old school intellectuals will have a short list that includes National Review, Bill Buckley’s “Firing Line”, Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, and George Will’s columns. The populist and paleocon wings will name Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, Human Events, and CNN’s Crossfire (Pat Buchanan-era). The more gullible (or cynical) might list books by Ann Coulter or Bill O’Reilly.<\/p>\n

But the truth is that the vast majority of conservatives have never read Chamber’s Witness or puzzled over what it means to “Immanentize the Eschaton.” They don\u2019t subscribe to The Weekly Standard or The American Conservative. They didn’t read the book that Goldwater didn’t write (The Conscience of a Conservative) and never saw Buckley cuss out Gore Vidal on national TV.<\/p>\n

So what media has influenced them the most? I offer three candidates for consideration: a book, a magazine, and a radio show. All three of which I believe have impacted American conservatism more than any other media.<\/p>\n

Continue reading Conservatism’s Most Influential Media<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While hanging around at The Evangelical Outpost this afternoon I discovered this post from April 5, 2007 by Joe Carter: What media has had the most influence on the conservative movement over the past forty years? Various factions within conservatism … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}