This anthology presents a full range of the perspectives of the paleoconservtive right underlining the originality of its thought and the reasons for its marginal status within the conservative establishment. Our book also shows why certain themes paleoconservtism has highlighted continue to find resonance.
Today's wholesale lack of trust in our institutions is a problem with deep roots in liberalism, and it cannot be solved by tweaking a liberal paradigm in which different conceptions of the good create conflict that is resolved by a sovereign state without reference to a nonexclusive common good. Ultimately, the essence of liberalism is contained ......
How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk
A critique of the George W Bush administration's handling of international relations that demonstrates the folly and the dangers of abandoning diplomacy and relying on military force as the chief means of conducting US foreign policy.
Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right
Young Americans for Freedom was a conservative political group which locked horns with the New Left and spawned many of the major figures in the contemporary conservative movement. This history of YAF describes how young conservatives, unlike their leftist counterparts, survived the 1960s.
In recent years, black neoconservatism has captured the national imagination. Clarence Thomas sits on the Supreme Court. Stephen Carter's opinions on topics ranging from religion to the confirmation process are widely quoted. The New Republic has written that black neoconservative Thomas Sowell was having a greater influence on the discussion ......
Argues that black conservatives have no real constituency but, as in the case of Clarence Thomas, are held up - and proclaim themselves - as ruthlessly honest, above self-interest and crude political loyalties. They claim to be outsiders, even from within society's most powerful institutions.
The U.S. political system may be getting polarized to the point where it is not only dysfunctional, but could be conducive to a single-party authoritarian transition. This book promotes a renewed appreciation for its exercise, through an examination of its history, an analysis of how and why polarization has increased in the U.S., and how ......
William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, George F Will, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, John Bolton - these are a political force to be reckoned with. But how to define this new conservatism? This volume examines the ideas, policies and roots of this ideological movement. It also offers an analysis of the neoconservative ethos.
William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, George F Will, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, John Bolton - these are a political force to be reckoned with. But how to define this new conservatism? This volume examines the ideas, policies and roots of this ideological movement. It also offers an analysis of the neoconservative ethos.
