From Allan Bloom’s lecture halls to the Iraq War’s intellectual wreckage, a memoir of how a neoconservative movement insider became a dissenter.
Irving Kristol
Posted inPolitical Animal
Trump and the Triumph of Fake News
It’s hard to dispute one word of Brian Stelter’s February 4 condemnation of the GOP’s memo-based malevolence–and the right-wing media’s key role in fueling the foolishness of Donald Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA): Geraldo Rivera is also unquestionably correct: had Fox News and Hannity been a prominent cultural/political force in the early 1970s, Richard […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
“The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them”
About thirty years ago, the Long Island Regional Poison Control Center ran a semi-famous ad campaign encouraging children not to treat prescription medicine as candy. The spot featured blue pills singing the following: This is serious! We could make you delirious! You should have a healthy fear of us– Too much of us is dangerous! […]
Posted inMagazine
Civility, Community, and Humor: The Conservatism We Need
There are better elements in the conservative tradition than the defense of wealth and privilege.
