The editorial page of Wall Street Journal can generally be relied upon to promote solidly neoconservative analysis. Other magazines include the Weekly Standard, currently edited by William Kristol and owned by Rupert Murdoch. On its webpage Commentary boasts it is known "as the intellectual home of the neoconservative movement" which is "vitally engaged in the preservation and spread of democracy and Western values." The early leaders of the neoconservative movement were Irving Kristol (author of 1983 book Reflections of a Neoconservative) and Norman Podhoretz, both of whom have served as editors of Commentary Magazine, the flagship publication of the American Jewish Committee, a centrist American-Jewish organization. supremacy." įor a list of prominent American neoconservatives, see Neo-conservatives/list. As they did in the 1970s, the neoconservatives were instrumental in the late 1990s in helping to fuse diverse elements of the right into a unified force based on a new agenda of U.S. But unlike either core traditionalists of American conservatism or those with isolationist tendencies, neoconservatives are committed internationalists. Writing in 2002 Lobe and Tom Barry argued that"neoconservatives have a profound belief in America1s moral superiority, which facilitates alliances with the Christian Right and other social conservatives. Lobe identifies the main strands as "the traditional Republican Machtpolitikers (Might Makes Right), such as Vice President Dick Cheney and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, and the Christian Rightists, such as Attorney General John Ashcroft, Gary Bauer, and Pat Robertson." Inter-Press Service journalist Jim Lobe noted that the development of a common understanding on the definition of neoconservative "can help distinguish them from other parts of the ideological coalition behind the administration's neo-imperialist trajectory".
In addition, many neocons supported limited social welfare programs and nonrestrictive immigration policies." Although they attacked feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism, "neocons" often placed less emphasis on social policy issues, and many of them opposed school prayer or a ban on abortion.
global dominance, and international alliances. They emphasized foreign policy, where they advocated aggressive anticommunism, U.S. Neoconservatives, including many Jewish and Catholic intellectuals rooted in Cold War liberalism, clustered around publications such as Public Interest and Commentary and organizations such as the Committee on the Present Danger. In their book Right-Wing Populism in America, Chip Berlet and Matthew Lyons wrote that: 10 Incidental Neo-conservative External Links.3 Criticisms of neoconservatives from within the conservative movement.2.1 The neoconservatives and the Bush administrations.1 Origins of the neo-conservative movement.
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