With serendipitous timing, given our recent chatter around here on the conservatism of Zora Neale Hurston, John McWhorter writes about her in the new issue of City Journal:
We have much to learn from someone who is—as quiet as the secret is kept—America’s favorite black conservative.
Also in the same issue, and not to be missed by right-wing English majors, is Andrew Klavan’s interpretation of William Wordsworth as a neocon. When it comes to the Lyrical Ballads set, I have been and will remain more of a Coleridge man. Yet Klavan practically has me reaching for my old English Romantic writers textbook for a reappraisal.