Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel. He never steps out of character to make any of its burdens explicit. Keene does not know the meaning or historical import of the events he jots down in what he calls his "Waste Book." No longer able to believe in heavenly salvation, he does think of his journal as "my hope of Immortality." It will take a few decades to reach a firm verdict, but a first reading of The Tree of Life strongly suggests that Keene will get his wish...
...neoconservatism, came up with the notion about three years ago. The Public Interest (circ. 12,000), the neocon-servative quarterly devoted to domestic issues that he helped found 20 years ago, had shown that it could attract an in-tensely loyal audience. So why not start a similar journal on foreign policy? This week Kristol will test that idea when the National Interest hits the newsstands. The new quarterly, says Kristol, will provide a forum where conservatives "can argue with one another...
...premier issue, the National Interest makes three assumptions: the primary purpose of U.S. foreign policy must be to defend the national interests of the U.S.; international politics remains power politics; and the Soviet Union represents the single greatest threat to America's interests. Two decades ago, the journal's editors contend, those statements were considered truisms, but today they have become almost exclusively conservative beliefs...
Articles in the first issue cover topics ranging from terrorism to the paralyzing effect Congress has on the President's ability to forge foreign policy. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who serves on the journal's advisory board, contributes a speech arguing the morality of U.S. aid to anti-Communist rebels. In an essay, Kristol says that support is growing in the U.S. for a muscular foreign policy grounded in the belief that the conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is not one of clashing national interests, as some liberals say, but of ideologies. Kristol predicts that the U.S. will...
...members of the Quincy House Investment Club are more likely to be found scanning the latest market quotations in the Wall Street Journal than cramming in Cabot Library...