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It's Like a NeoconCon

Jan 24, 2005 11:34 AM
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If I'm not too tired, too hungry or too sick, I'll be going to this Neocon panel tonight:

BOOK FORUM
The Neocon Reader

Monday, January 24, 2005, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

The newly published The Neocon Reader (Grove Press, January 2005), edited by Irwin Stelzer, includes essays by nine present and former AEI scholars. At this seminar, the development and future of neoconservatism will be discussed and debated by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Karlyn H. Bowman, Charles Murray, Charles Krauthammer, and Irwin M. Stelzer.

5:15 p.m.
Registration

5:30
Discussion:
KARLYN H. BOWMAN, AEI
JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK, AEI
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, Washington Post
CHARLES MURRAY, AEI
IRWIN M. STELZER, Hudson Institute

Moderator:
KARLYN H. BOWMAN, AEI

7:00
Adjournment and Reception

I have some Neocon things I agree with, some I don't, and like most people, I don't even really know WTF a NeoCon is. The Wikipedia entry says it's a "controversial" term, before giving differing explanations.

Then again, what sizeable political movement is uniform? Socialists ran the gamut from Stalin to hippie communes to trade unions.

Either way, Neocons are an influential group worth knowing more about.

Flame away.

update Fuck it. I'm gonna go home to get a better humidifier at the mall and take care of other shit around the apartment.


Comments: It's Like a NeoconCon

Can we flame you about the humidifier? Why do you need one anyway?

Posted by: O'dell on January 24, 2005 5:59 PM | permalink

Poor Joe, you don't want the Democrats and the Republicans don't want you. I hear the Libertarians are hiring, or maybe the Greens.

Posted by: ChuckJerry on January 24, 2005 6:16 PM | permalink

I thought he was Libertarian. Or are you not anymore?

Posted by: O'dell on January 25, 2005 1:42 AM | permalink

I would say that, in general, I am a moderate libertarian. That said, the Libertarian Party is a freaking joke.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on January 25, 2005 7:46 AM | permalink

No more comments! Either someone has violated Godwin's Law, I'm tired of the discussion or, most likely, the ten-week window has closed. You can, however, contact me through email.