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Steve Watson
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George Orwell, 'Politics and the English Language', 1946. Clear thinking through clear expression (or is it the other way around?)
George Kennan, 'The Long Telegram', 1946. The architecture of the Cold War.
Richard Hofstadter, 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics', Harpers Magazine, November 1964 pp. 77-86. The Bush Derangement Syndrome we see today is in a grand old tradition.
William Tucker, 'Environmentalism and the Leisure Class' (pdf, 16 pages), Harpers Magazine, December 1977 pp.49-80. Protecting birds, fishes, and above all, social privilege.
Leszek Kolakowski, 'My Correct Views on Everything' (pdf, 20 pages), Socialist Register,1974. A Rejoinder to Edward Thompson's "Open Letter to Leszek Kolakowski"
Jeanne Kirkpatrick, 'Dictatorships and Double Standards', Commentary, November, 1979. Authoritarianism is not the same as Totalitarianism, so treat them differently.
Francis Fukuyama, 'The End of History', The National Interest, Summer , 1989. There is no competitor to liberal capitalist democracy.
Lee Harris, 'The Intellectual Origins of America-Bashing', Policy Review, December/January, 2002 Adaptations of the Marxist immiserization thesis blame America, but make socialism utopian again.
Norm Geras, 'The Reductions of the Left', Dissent, Winter, 2005. Much leftist praxis is informed by a single-factor analysis: it is 'anti-imperialism' über alles.
Ron Rosenbaum, 'Goodbye, All That', N Y Observer, 14 October 2002. How Left moral idiocies drove one true believer to flee the fold.
John Fonte, 'Liberal Democracy vs. Transnational Progressivism' (pdf, 14 pages), Orbis, Summer, 2002. A class is arising that sees itself as unattached to the nation-state, and is inimical to its values.
Walter Russell Mead, 'The Jacksonian Tradition', The National Interest, Winter, 1999/2000. The fourth and most vital tradition in American foreign policy formation.
Robert Kagan, 'Power and Weakness', Policy Review, June/July, 2002. Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus.
James C. Bennett, 'An Anglosphere Primer', 2001, 2002. The Anglophone peoples form a distinct and potent sub-branch of Western civilisation.
Frederick Turner, 'Tiananmen in London', Tech Central Station, 19 December, 2003 The competition between two conceptions of Law: Law of Good and Law of Right.
Thomas P. M. Bartlett, 'The Pentagon's New Map' (jpg, 125k) 2004 A new strategic distinction between core and non-integrating areas on the globe.
William Kristol & Robert Kagan, 'Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy', Foreign Affairs, July/August, 1996 The ideologogical marker for the new Republican foreign policy.
Ivo Daalder & James Lindsay, 'Democracies of the World, Unite!', The American Interest, Vol. II/No. 3, Jan/Feb 2007 A Congress of Democracies could organize the forces of progress in the world.
Cas Mudde, 'The Populist Zeitgeist', Government and Opposition, 39(4), 2004 Populism is a thin ideology that can attach to other thicker ones.
Angelo Codevilla, 'America's Ruling Class - And the Perils of Revolution', The American Spectator, July 16, 2010 The Ruling Class versus the Country Class.
Mike Lofgren, 'Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State', Moyers and Co., Feb 21, 2014 Why does ' government' seem to be out of control? Whose interests does it serve?
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