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Category Archives: Neoconservatives
Defending Liberalism by Illiberal Means: The World of Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan (b. 1958) is a leading theorist of American primacy in the decades after the Cold War. He built his career as a historian and essayist who supplied a governing class with the vocabulary it used to interpret its … Continue reading
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Decoding The Foundation For The Defense Of Democracies
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a hard-edge pro-Israel alliance enforcer that presents itself as neutral expertise. It exists to make certain foreign-policy positions feel like sober realism rather than factional interest. It converts alliance commitments into … Continue reading
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Populism, Neoconservatism & Lessons in the Application of Power
I’m a simple man who likes simple things like truth. Here is one truth as I see it — populism is usually popular but rarely gets anything done, while neoconservatism is unpopular but gets much accomplished (such as the disastrous … Continue reading
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NYT: Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges the American Political Debate
If America was in danger of slipping into a dictatorship, trillions of dollars would move out of America (because in a dictatorship, you no longer have the rule of law and wealth can be arbitrarily confiscated), and the U.S. dollar … Continue reading
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‘Yes, We Should Call Them Imperialists’
Paul Gottfried wrote July 19, 2018: Neoconservatives like Max Boot are fooling themselves if they think imposing ‘values’ on the rest of the world isn’t a matter of empire. Recently while reading a book by an Israeli scholar named Yoram … Continue reading
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Jews and the Conservative Rift
Historian Edward Shapiro, Marc B. Shapiro’s father, writes in 1999: American conservatism was enveloped in a mood of doubt and angst during the 1980s and 1990s precisely at the time when its message had seemingly never resonated more strongly. These … Continue reading
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Bye, Bye Neo-Cons
David Goldman writes: Israeli leaders of all major parties warn of two existential threats to Israel: a U.N. resolution forcing Israel back to the 1967 armistice line, and a nuclear-armed Iran. With Donald Trump’s election both threats have receded into … Continue reading
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White Man’s Burden
Comment: “Haaretz ran this interesting story back in 2003 about the genesis of the Iraq War. Suffice it to say no respectable journalist in the US could have run this without ruining their career.” Haaretz: The war in Iraq was … Continue reading
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Trump +6
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Trump is moving out ahead in the polls and many of the #NeverTrumpers are realizing this game of musical chairs will quickly be coming to an end and they will be left standing holding their … Continue reading
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The Neocons Have Gone From GOP Thought-Leaders to Outcasts
Jonathan Chait writes: The original neoconservatives were a small faction of formerly liberal or left-wing intellectuals, disproportionately Jewish, who defected to the GOP in the 1970s. (One of them, Kristol’s father, Irving, famously quipped that a neoconservative was a liberal … Continue reading
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