ABOUT THIS MONTH: A Rare Opportunity
Pleszczynski, Wladyslaw
ABOUT THIS MONTH A Rare Opportun.ity BY WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI ~N THE LATEST CLASH OF CMLIZATIONS involving B i l l Clinton, we saw our uncouth former president on Fox News nearly lynch and...
...Podhoretz explains what makes Mr...
...Thus when it comes to George W. Bush, he quite naturally breaks ranks with those who automatically roll their eyes at the very mention of the President's name...
...So much for loyalty in a political climate in which the term "neoconservative" has become an excuse to foam at the mouth and refuse to take one's rabies medicine...
...More revealing yet of Mr...
...Gutfeld spends much of his time having to rebut the puffed-up celebrities and self-adulating La-La Landers that blog about in the so-called Huffington Post (brain child of the serenely vapid Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffing'ton, who abandoned the right a decade or so ago after it proved too intellectually rigorous for her New Age tastes...
...Podhoretz has defended freedom as courageously as any writer and editor of the last half-century-no mean trick, we should remember, given how badly outnumbered he invariably found himself among New York's intellectuals...
...Treasure these men of rare culture...
...Clinton has run off with Marthe Richard (page 36...
...Greg Gutfeld should be so lucky...
...More importantly, both remain engaged public intellectuals who write beautifully and fearlessly, and always with great clarity, learning, and civility...
...Unless, of course, Mr...
...intellectuals to contend with, Mr...
...Surely Clinton couldn't have been referring to neoeonservatives who supported his controversial Kosovo war...
...Guffeld got his auspicious start at The American Spectator, for which he'll be writing a regular column from now until eternity...
...Bush's Second Inaugural "a masterpiece of American oratory" (page 28...
...Where Mr...
...Like Michael Novak, Norman Podhoretz always sees the bigger picture...
...Michael Novak and Norman Podhoretz have been leading neoconservatives for some three decades, two distinguished liberals who became distinguished conservatives...
...ABOUT THIS MONTH A Rare Opportun.ity BY WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI ~N THE LATEST CLASH OF CMLIZATIONS involving B i l l Clinton, we saw our uncouth former president on Fox News nearly lynch and scalp the cultivated Chris Wallace...
...One 4 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 2006 senses he does so not only for our benefit...
...While what passes for political opposition in our country is happy to make ignorance and spite its guideposts, we are blessed this month to be reminded ofneoconservatism in all its essentials...
...Novak's essay (page 14) was sparked by a lively exchange last summer on the subject of God, religion, and conservative politics...
...But when eternity arrives, odds are that the likes of Bill Clinton or old Rickenbacker, Greg's acquaintance from UC Berkeley days, will still be going strong...
...Before he knew it, he was grappling with questions that "have haunted humans for many, many centuries" Here he ever so gently but firmly and expertly guides the modern soul content with-or yearning for-easy answers to dig deeper...
...Podhoretz has had N.Y...
...There is so much more to them than politics, which is always but a rudimentary stage of matters much larger...
...Implicit in his argument: This remains a consequential presidency...
...Though he's won fame as editor of Men's Health and Maxim, Mr...
...We'll let him explain (page 40...
...Without qualms, and as eloquently as the speech itself read, Mr...
...Clinton's congenital crudity, for the first time that I could detect he joined the Democrats' MoveOn/Daily Kos hordes to belittle "President Bush's neocons"-whoever they might be...
Vol. 39 • November 2006 • No. 9
