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Issue Vol. 002 Issue 046 (August 4 1997)
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Paid article Scrapbook
The Speaker's New Moderate Base Newt Gingrich decided last week to give some of the responsibilities of Bill Pax-on—whom Gingrich dumped from his leadership team after the recent failed coup—to...
Paid article Casual
_Casual Numbers on the Brain f ¦ ^he little grey cells," I says Hercule Poirot, -L. Agatha Christie's great Belgian detective, touching an index finger to his forehead, "ah, Hastings, they are...
Paid article Correspondence
jesse at the Helm Rather than exhibiting "cleverness," as Fred Barnes put it ("The Ascendency of Jesse Helms," Aug. 11), Sen. Helms was taken to the cleaners by Secretary of State Madeleine...
Paid article Michael Barone
Michael Barone This is not the first time that a movement's candidates have been beaten while its ideas are ascendant. Forty years ago, in the 1950s, elections were won by Eisenhower, Churchill and...
Paid article Gary L. Bauer
Gary L. Bauer Conservatives since Reagan and Thatcher have been struggling. In the last two U.S. elections, the Republican candidates for president have averaged less than 40 percent of the popular...
Paid article Jeffrey Bell
? ? ? Jeffrey Bell recently read a draft copy of Dinesh D'Souza's new political biography of Ronald Reagan. I hope a lot of conservatives read this book when it comes out this fall, for a close...
Paid article Walter Berns
country was founded. If it is not, moral politics becomes too didactic and is almost always unsuccessful. It is often remarked that the United States is the only Western democracy that has a...
Paid article Malcolm Bradbury
Conservatives worldwide are in a peculiar state. On the one hand, ther ideas seem to be ascendant; on the other hand, the parties and politicians that represent them seem to be getting battered....
Paid article David Brock
David Brock The Republican Congress lost its moorings not after President Clinton won reelection in 1996, but on taking power in 1994. Ideologues generally don't have sound strategic judgment, as...
Paid article Eliot A. Cohen
from Reagan, who once presciently observed that "there is no left or right, only an up or down." The coming fault lines are something like change/status quo; consensus/partisanship; and...
Paid article Noemie Emery
Noemie Emery Political people divide by ideas, which are always important. They are also divided by style, which is sometimes more pertinent, as it decides who and what gets to govern, and whose...
Paid article Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama While I largely agree with the symposium's opening premise that we live in an age when conservative ideas have become dominant, I don't think it necessarily follows that...
Paid article David Gelernter
? ? ? David Gelernter e was used to being hit, but not that hard. That London should come out for the eleventh was more than anybody had the right to ask, but he did. Fifty-one seconds after it...
Paid article Stanley B. Greenberg
Stanley B. Greenberg The conservative defeats in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Canada are only bewildering if you begin with the premise that conservative ideas are historically...
Paid article Yoram Hazony
Yoram Hazony The fate of conservatism in Israel is the reverse of that in the rest of the West: The newly elected prime minister, Benjamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu, is the closest Israel has ever had to...
Paid article Mark Helprin
viet Union, only to find themselves splintered today into a multitude of cultural, educational, religious, economic, and nationalist elements, unable to remember what they ever had in common....
Paid article Josef Joffe
cannot always get exactly what they want, no political party can succeed except by raw accident or unctuous fraud. Conservatives are supposed to lean toward probity, discipline, and self-sacrifice....
Paid article Michael S. Joyce
the bear was asked whether he wanted honey or jam on his bread, he replied, "I'll have both ...but I won't take the bread." Meet the postmodern voter. The electorate has "deconstructed." Those who...
Paid article Charles R. Kesler
serve, and a culture that undermines character, all because the institutions of liberalism remain intact even as their utopian rationale has been repudiated. If conservatism can once again speak...
Paid article Everett Carll Ladd
Everett Carll Ladd To answer the question posed for this symposium, we need to understand the huge shift in public sentiment that from the late 1970s on has given conservative ideas an ascendancy...
Paid article Leslie Lenkowsky
Leslie Lenkowsky The disarray in which conservatives find themselves these days ultimately grows out of their triumphs in political ideas and energy. For most of this century, collectivist...
Paid article Tod Lindberg
? ? ? Tod Lindberg was in Moscow in June for the first time in seven years, and, naturally, I visited the Kremlin again. In 1990, even in the age of glasnost and perestroika, the Kremlin was still...
Paid article Seymour Martin Lipset
Seymour Martin Lipset To understand why "conservative" parties lose elections when conservative anti-statist libertarian ideas seem to be flourishing is simple. The answer is the same as to the...
Paid article Mike Murphy
Mike Mirptiy Conservative parties are getting clobbered because we have lost the courage to be unfashionable. Instead we have become slaves to fashion. We chase "soccer moms" with dumb focus groups...
Paid article Grover Norquist
squabbling. And since we are conservatives, it is our strange nature to battle most happily in public, wounding one another, since we lack that special principle of Democratic centralism that has...
Paid article James Piereson
James Piereson While it is true that conservatives in the Congress seem to have lost their way in recent months, it is well to remember that their confusion is more the consequence of success than...
Paid article Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes Apossible explanation: Imagine you live in New York City and you've been convinced that 50 years of rent control does grievous economic harm to the city and is an iniquitous system....
Paid article Irwin M. Stelzer
Conservatives worldwide are h a peculiar state. On the one hand, their ideas seem to be ascendant; on the other hand, the parties and pofticians that represent them seem to be getting battered....
Paid article R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. Let us leave conservatism as it is found in Britain and France out of these proceedings. Both conservatisms embrace too many indigenous quirks, among them libidinous riot in...
Paid article Paul M. Weyrich
Paul M. Weyrich There is in fact no contradiction between the ascendancy of conservative ideas and the defeat of so-called conservative parties. The reality is that these parties do not represent...
Paid article James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson The victories of Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and Lionel Jospin, taken as a whole, signal a moderate advance in conservative thought, not a retreat. Clinton was reelected because the...
Paid article Parody
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