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  • STICK A FORK IN IT, IT'S DONE: THE DEATH OF LIBERALISM

    10/02/2006 8:20:23 PM PDT · by ritt · 5 replies · 474+ views
    Horsefeathers ^ | 10-01-2006 | Stephen Rittenberg
    Horsefeathers has been fascinated by the decline of Liberalism. Perhaps this is because its rise and fall has occurred over the course of his own lifetime. It sometimes strikes us that all the people, now departed, whose opinions mattered most to us were liberals. While they are gone, Liberalism itself lingers, sick unto death, an almost moribund version of its once lively self. Liberalism was a part of the world of ideas in which we lived, part of what we admired in the older generation. It was the air we breathed and the way we thought of ourselves: we were...
  • Neocons and Big Government: Is G.W. Bush a Nixon or a Reagan?

    08/21/2003 7:39:46 AM PDT · by Theodore R. · 4 replies · 465+ views
    Human Events Online ^ | 08-21-03 | Bartlett, Bruce
    Is Bush a Ronald Reagan or a Richard Nixon? Neocons and Big Government by Bruce Bartlett Posted Aug 21, 2003 For some months, we have been hearing a lot about how neoconservatism underpins the Bush administration's foreign policy, especially the war in Iraq. Now, some neoconservatives are saying that their philosophy underpins the administration's domestic and economic policy, as well. The evidence for this contention is strong, a fact that will undoubtedly exacerbate tensions between President Bush and traditional conservatives. To understand what this debate is all about, one needs to know what neoconservatism is and where it came from....