The “Kennan Sweepstakes,” they called it in the early 1990s. Decades earlier, the diplomat George Kennan had won lasting renown (and lifelong self-torture) with his writings at the Cold War’s outset that outlined the nature of the Soviet threat to the United States and prescribed a vague strategy to counter it. Now, as the Soviet Union relaxed its grip on Central Europe and then imploded, leading thinkers, government officials, and policy wonks scrambled to define the nature of this new age in f
(Archived document, may contain errors) THE NEOCONSERVATIVES: AN ENDANGERED SPECIES by Russell Kirk There stands before you, ladies and gentlemen, one of the few survivors of the original intrepid band of Neoconservatives. Very early in the 1950s, some of us who declared our belief in the Pe rmanent Tldngs were so denominated by our adversaries; but we did not clasp the epithet to our bosoms as a badge of honor - unlike the people who, a quarter of a century later, pleaded guilty as charged, and gloried in their shame.
What is "hate speech"? It seems no one can agree. Many Americans seemingly are content to debate over proverbial "how many angels can dance on the head of pin" questions, while our country is being destroyed. Our core freedom – the freedom to speak, write and think freely – is disappearing. When debates are artificially…