The new title

Clark Stooksbury notices that the excitable lads over at Contra-Crunchy are engaging in creative conspiracy-mongering over why the title for the paperback edition of "Crunchy Cons" is going to be a lot shorter. Clark sensibly suggests an alternative explanation: "How about this -- the original subtitle was simply way too long?"

That, I'm afraid, is the correct answer. The original subtitle was there in part as a marketing decision; few people would have known what a "crunchy conservative" was, but putting words like "organic," "Evangelical," "gun-loving," "homeschooling," etc. on the cover telegraphed important information to the casual browser. We can afford to make it a lot shorter on the paperback version (which will now be subtitled, "The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots," and will have a new chapter too).