Sentences with word «neoconservatives»

In this insightful, well - researched and thought - provoking book, Todd Scribner presents a compelling story of the development of neoconservative Catholic thought in the 1970s and 1980s.

But the idea of making hybrid cars that have the option of being plugged in is supported by a diverse group of interests, from neoconservatives who support greater fuel efficiency to utilities salivating at the chance to supplant oil with electricity.

In a widely read and discussed essay in the Summer 2002 issue of Policy Review, Robert Kagan analyzed the increasingly rancorous relationship between the United States and Europe in terms favored by the so - called neoconservatives who have exercised such a decisive (and controversial) influence on the foreign policy of the Bush Administration since September 11, 2001.

(in politics) a person with neoconservative views.

In his polemic against Jewish neoconservatives in general and Irving Kristol in particular, for instance, Hertzberg cites the Talmudic principle, «When in doubt, and the leaders confuse you by divided counsel, go into the street and see what the people are doing.»

A number of other prominent social scientists, including Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, and Daniel Bell, also began to identify themselves with the nascent neoconservative movement during the 1970s, as did Neuhaus, one of his close friends.

During his first trip to the United States, less than two weeks after being appointed International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox took the opportunity to meet with the climate science denying neoconservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation.

Under the leadership of Reagan, California had become ground zero for neoconservative attacks on the social contract as well as the context for an array of violent episodes, including the Manson Family murders, the SLA abductions and bombings, the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, and the Jonestown massacre.

Niebuhrian liberals are today the former Democrats or nominal Democrats who are commonly called neoconservatives.

In the 1970s a number of influential neoconservatives embraced capitalism with the enthusiasm of new converts.

It may very well be true that, as many neoconservative intellectuals have argued, al - Qaeda and other terrorist groups were emboldened by American military fecklessness throughout the 1990s.

In Imperial Designs Gary Dorrien, a prolific author whose writings include two volumes in an acclaimed series on American liberal Christianity and a decade - old book on neoconservative ideology thoroughly rehearses the movement of the ideas and people operating the U.S. foreign policy machinery.

As for the First Things part of his subtitle, Moore is referring of course to the controversy over «the judicial usurpation of politics,» and to the attacks by neoconservatives, notably in Commentary magazine, on arguments appearing in these pages.

An editor at the New Republic, Franklin Foer, noting that a number of prominent Jewish neoconservatives had come out for McCain, suggested that the Senator's campaign signaled a reawakening of the neocon / theocon controversy on the right (a controversy Foer traces to FT's «The End of Democracy?»

That said it can be anything, everything or nothing; labeling something as an enduring neoconservative position is always going to be problematic.

The 56 - year - old archaeologist has been vilified as a Baathist sympathizer by American neoconservatives, criticized as pro-West by Sunnis, and viewed with suspicion by Shiites because of his Christian background.

Because Sanders sees them as people who currently hold more neoconservative views than himself and would consider his social - democratic policies detrimental to their interests and / or against their political believes.

Although Dorrien attends to important figures who are sympathetic to neoconservative ideology, including President Bush both before and after 9/11.

He regarded neoconservatives, by contrast, as ideologues of capitalist democracy who were happy to overturn history and tradition if that helped them achieve their goals.

Prior to 1980, most neoconservatives regarded him with a combination of condescension and mistrust.

Podhoretz says that «Reagan can... be considered one of the first neoconservatives.»

However, a certain neoconservative reaction has also arisen which, in some quarters, recklessly criticises Gaudium et Spes in particular, even dismissing some of its contents as heterodox.

In The War for Muslim Minds, Gilles Kepel, a French Arabist and scholar of Islam, shows little patience for neoconservative U.S. foreign policy, but most of the book is taken up with criticism of the chief enemy of Muslim reform in Europe: jihadist ideology imported from Saudi Arabian Wahhabism, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Qutb brothers (Sayyid and Muhammad) and like - minded sources.

At the same time, neoconservative thinkers like Gertrude Himmelfarb were extolling the much - denigrated virtues of the Victorian age.

Neoconservative William Kristol tells CNBC he underestimated Donald Trump but still believes he should not sit in the White House.

Obama's refusal to bow to Hagel's opponents, including pro-Israel groups, neoconservatives figures and some of Hagel's own Republican colleagues, signaled that the president would not allow a top Cabinet candidate to be derailed again.

Fifteen years have passed since President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and a coterie of neoconservatives launched the invasion of Iraq with a murderous bombardment of Baghdad.

Even neoconservatives should appreciate the fairness of Dorrien's presentation and the skill with which he tells their important, world - altering story.

Nelson - Pallmeyer examines not only neoconservatives and their call for increased American militarization but also the neoliberals of the Clinton era, who emphasized economic globalization as a means to advance American domination in the world.

(CNN)- As I have read recent neoconservative diatribes against President Obama's nominee for secretary of defense, former Sen. Chuck Hagel - including charges that he is an anti-Semite and a full - page advertisement attacking him in The New York Times on Thursday - I have asked myself, «What would George Washington do?»

Crisis is still finding its editorial legs, but has already found a secure niche among conservative and neoconservative Catholics.

For another instance, says Kaus, Loury criticizes neoconservatives for not being committed to government programs aimed at helping those in poverty, while at the same time he brilliantly analyzes the futility and even iatrogenic harm of such programs.

It is a strange fact, Featherstone observes, that most of today's neoconservatives defending great books and tradition — the curriculum of the orators — are really closet philosophers.

Neoconservatives differed with traditional conservatives on a number of issues, of which the three most important, in my view, were the New Deal, civil rights, and the nature of the Communist threat.

Although neoconservatives originally hoped to exercise influence among liberals» their first institutional incarnation, after all, was as the Coalition for a Democratic Majority» the direction of their movement, from the time it targeted the New Left as the enemy, was always to the right.

I find myself in the perverse position of wishing the paleocons were more right than they are in insisting on neoconservative distinctiveness.

On the New Deal, neoconservatives wanted not to dismantle the welfare / regulatory state, as did most traditionalists, but simply to prevent its infinite expansion, as in the programs of the Great Society.

It is, rather, the rivalry between old conservatives, represented by National Review, and neoconservatives represented by, inter alia, Commentary.

«Saint Michael Harrington,» as neoconservative apologist Michael Novak has called him, has some of the qualities of saintliness.