One recent Saturday, I attended two meetings. The first meeting was a Pierce County Republican Party Central Committee meeting. Most of the precinct committee officers and party officials were in their fifties, sixties, or seventies. They have been involved in Republican politics for years, and they are the valued grassroots that fought notably in my community for Reagan in 1980, for the Republican Congressional majority in 1994, and for Bush these last two elections.

The second meeting, that afternoon, was younger. About thirty people, most in their twenties and thirties, gathered at the Pierce County Republican Headquarters to discuss the blogging revolution. Not everyone there would stand out at a PCO meeting, but most of them stand out in the blogosphere. An excitement spread the room as we bandied ideas and networked, and I sensed the same thing that so many Americans now sense, that a revolution is at our disposal.

I left the meeting inspired. And I decided to take up blogging myself, which I have just done with Reagan's Children Blog at www.reaganchildren.com.

It is not with complete confidence that I commence blogging. The blogosphere poses questions that I have not yet sorted out, that perhaps by my posing of them here will generate some answers. For instance, the blogosphere seems to cheapen language. By equalizing the opportunity of everyone to post their rants and raves and daily activities and deep secrets, we hardly increase the output of quality literature. How in such a culture are we to encourage an educated and literary citizenry? Is the intelligent man to add his intelligent essay to a clutter of mostly unintelligent blathers, or is he to keep himself to the more traditional media? Will truth triumph in the blogosphere, or will it merely become lost in a postmodern trivia?

But one thing about blogging is inescapable-and we cannot escape our moment in history-and that is that blogging is the wave of the future. It is not a passing fad, for it holds within its break revolutions of media, education, literature, and politics. Already, the mainstream media topples, new political accountabilities are established, and the free market of ideas is spread wide for the world.

In such a scene is Reagan's Children Blog vital.

Reagan's Children Blog will be a central portal on the blogosphere for the conservative vanguard of the rising generation. We will wage a conversation about the future. Young conservative writers like Ben Shapiro, Ryan Walsh, Brendan Steinhauser, Patrick Bell, and Christian Hartsock will contribute their unique perspectives on the generation to answer the question: "Where are we going?"

I myself am an optimist on the question. I think that most young conservatives are optimists, because they sense a pendulum swinging, or because they feel in some way the violent pulse of Providence. But Reagan's Children Blog will feature the whole spectrum from optimism to pessimism.

We promise no answers to the ultimate questions. We guarantee a discussion of the future that is long overdue, a future that must be oriented in a particular way if following generations are to answer the ultimate questions.

We have just begun to blog.

Hans Zeiger blogs at www.reaganchildren.com, and he is the author of the forthcoming Reagan's Children: Taking Back the City on the Hill. An Eagle Scout and student at Hillsdale College, he is the author of Get Off My Honor: The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America. www.hanszeiger.net and is a Staff Writer for The New Media Alliance

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