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sneering at them because they are "soldiers in the cold war," asserting
that this explains why his book "has received high praise from people
not ordinariI y noted for their love of things American." The reviewer's
animus is scarcely distinguishable from that of past politicians and
publicists who treated intellectuals as supercilious, heretical scoffers
deficient in "Americanism." Where are the rationality and high
seriousness, supposedly typical of neoconservatism, in judgments such
as this?
A few years ago a visiting lecturer gave a seminar talk on "neo–
Marxism and postindustrial society." In the question period, a young
woman rather plaintively asked him why he had fai led even to mention
two Marxist writers who were evidently special heroes of hers. "Not
very 'neo,' those fellows," he retorted. She might have replied that
industrial society wasn 't all that "post" either, but the lecturer's quip
can be applied with equal justice to the evolution of neoconservatism
as a political and intellectual movement.
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