tNP Garners National Attention for its “Irreverence”
August 07, 2004
The New Pantagruel recently made its national debut on the pages of the New York Times in a front page article on the future of conservatism in America:
“Now, many conservatives say, the current Bush administration is testing that definition of conservatism as it has never been tested before, from the expansion of federal health and education programs to the campaign to remake Iraq. And as Mr. Buckley prepares for retirement by handing over control of National Review, a new generation of young would-be Buckleys is debating just what conservatism means when their side has taken over Washington, and yet they still do not feel that they have won.
“‘Conservative is a word that is almost meaningless these days,’ said Caleb Stegall, 32, a lawyer in Topeka, Kan., and a founder of The New Pantagruel, newpantagruel.com, an irreverent Web site about religion and politics named for the jovial drunkard created by Rabelais. ‘It tells you almost nothing about where a person stands on a lot of questions,’ he said, like gay marriage, stem cell research, the environment and Iraq.
“The debate among members of the young right is unfolding on Web sites like Mr. Stegall’s … [where] they tackle subjects as heterodox as the perils of Wal-Mart and urban sprawl, the dangers of unfettered capitalism to family life, and the feared takeover of their movement by hawkish neoconservatives.”
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