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Neoconservatism

SOURCE: The New Republic
2/14/2023

Review: Can Robert Kagan Reboot Interventionism?

by Samuel Moyn

"All along, not much ever separated neocons such as Kagan from a nationalist such as Trump, except the pretense that what is good for the United States, including all its war-making, is good for the world." But does the public buy it?

5/1/2022

Democracy's Enemies are Abroad, but Also at Home

by Jim Sleeper

If neoconservative warnings of a coming global struggle between Russia and "the West" are right, the west must consider what changes it is willing to make to allow for a victory without planetery catastrophe.