Word: neos
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Steven J. Kelman '70, Weatherhead professor of public management at the Kennedy School of Government, said the rise of neo-conservatism today can be traced to the shaken confidence in government that is the war's legacy...
Both in Russia and in the U.S., our partnership is just developing as something in our national interest. Both Russian and American politicians should resist the temptation to find an "easy" solution and retreat into isolationism. I know a neo-isolationist mood is strong in the U.S., based on the assumption that it is easier and also more profitable for America to resolve world problems singlehandedly. We also have a similar political tendency-"ultrapatriotism." Therefore, our common task is to lead the Russian-American partnership beyond internal political struggles. This is particularly true during election campaigns both here...
...Muslims, "Panther" portrays the Oakland Muslims as an indolent group of pretentious pseudo-Africans who have trouble accepting that they're not in Africa. Soon the women of the Black Muslims, led by the independent Alma (Nefertiti) tire of being asked to "bring more libations" to these self-important neo-old-worlders and join the Panthers...
...debate around these books runs like this. Jewish neo-conservatives who admire Robertson's staunch support for Israel have come to his defense in the wake of the ADL report and similar articles that have appeared recently in the New York Review of Books. They are willing to indulge Robertson (what they perceive to be) his theological idiosyncrasies so long as he gets the important issue, Israel, correct. For example, a prominent Jewish neo-conservative, Midge Decter, has written a scathing critique of the ADL study in a recent issue of Commentary...
...neo-conservative apologists, on the other hand, are guilty of whitewashing Robertson's sins in the name of their own Rightist agenda. It is one thing to point out that Robertson is not an anti-Semite plain and simple, and is a generous supporter of the State of Israel. It is another thing altogether to assume that his pro-Israel sentiments somehow excuse his anti-Semitic excesses...