Word: leftist
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...would not stay put ideologically. In recoil against the Eisenhower inertia, Podhoretz had steered to the radical left by the early '60s. But then, appalled at the anti-Americanism and cultural wreckage of the Vietnam era, he headed hard right. In 1960 he became editor in chief of the leftist journal Commentary; after his conversion he repositioned it as a leading organ of neoconservatism...
...campaign toward a single issue: Who is best suited to negotiate the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip? He argues that the Wye accord proves he can make peace, and that it is better to have a right-winger bargain over the final pact than a leftist who will make a sucker deal. It's a powerful argument, Netanyahu knows, and one that keeps him in the running...
...former coup leader's decisive victory is a sign of widespread popular anger at corruption and poverty in the oil-rich state. "Although he plans a referendum on changing the constitution, his economic policy will have to be more moderate," says Hoag. "Today's reality no longer allows for leftist economics." Washington denied Chavez an entry visa a year ago, but has said it would work with him if elected. After all, Chavez is just a feeling...
...Democrat" centrists that Bill Clinton used both as a springboard to the nomination in 1992 and as an idea factory for such once un-Democratic proposals as reforming welfare and balancing the federal budget. Back then, the DLC was the home of malcontents frustrated by the party establishment's leftist orthodoxy -- and by its tendency to put forward sure-loser candidates like Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. Now, thanks to Clinton's success as an Oval Office two-termer, DLC thinking has become the party's de facto theology, and its annual conference has developed into a station...
From her role in the end of the Cold War to her somewhat ruthless reform of the welfare state, Thatcher was a truly remarkable leader. That all of Harvard does not recognize this is indicative of the Leftist Lite mush which permeates our College. CABOT HENDERSON...