Stegall takes on Will
September 27th, 2006Our friend and local pundit/author/lawyer/farmer(?) Caleb Stegall recently took on conservative columnist George Will over the issue of Wal-Mart hegemony. Writing in the Dallas Morning News, Caleb argues against both the liberal position that Wal-Mart is bad because it exploits the marginalized and Will’s conservative fight to keep our laws off of Wal-Mart in the name of “consumer sovereignty”. Caleb believes that a more faithful conservative view is wary of any power enclave (whether in Congress or the marketplace) that attempts to exert managerial force over society.
Views like this have earned Caleb and his cohort the title Crunchy Conservatives - i.e. conservatism for the granola and Birkenstock and faith-motivated crowds. Former National Review writer Rod Dreher has written about Caleb et al in a book we like a lot called Crunchy Cons.
Find out more about Caleb at the webzine he used to edit, the New Pantagruel.
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For a fuller treatment of Stegall’s argument for a renewed populist movement in America, see his article “Populism Now,” published in Dallas Morning News back in July.
Bracing stuff, that.
And for even more, come hear all about Kansas’s populist heritage on Monday night!