I'm glad you're all wanting me back here. I'll do my best to oblige, for a limited period only. I noticed your little name dropping masterpiece a while back, Neocon, education in political philosophy via a succession of pundits:
By the end of college, I was what came to be called a "neoliberal" (Charles Peters, Martin Peretz, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic--- ring a bell?). By '80, I was what had come to be called a neoconservate, although since it included lots of anti- Communist social democrats, it was a misnomer (Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Commentary, The New Criterion--- ring a bell?).
That's the point of all that name dropping, right? Ringing the old bell. Throw out a few 2-5 sentence lists of conservative dogma here and there, you got a real debate going, right? |
