Tuesday, March 14, 2006
'Among them ...': Maybe Bryon Calame should suggest that Times reporters take crash Conservativism 101 courses from their conservative-beat colleagues. William F. Buckley Jr. is most certainly not a 'neoconservative,' as the story says. ... I found similar problems in George Packer's 'Assassin's Gate,' which admirably tries to explore the intellectual underpinnings of the war in Iraq. While acknowleding more than a few movement zigzags from Jeane Kirkpatrick to William Kristol, Packer still tries to make neoconservativism into a coherent whole that it's not. 'Neoconservative' has to be the most poorly applied label in American politics today. ...
