January 2004 
Defining Left and Right—January 2004(Comments Off)
Thomas Fleming on the natural order, Chilton Williamson, Jr., on the education of mass man, and Scott P. Richert on property. Plus, Leon Hadar on European attitudes towards Israel, and Cliff Kinkaid on Rush Limbaugh.
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The Conservative Search for Order
The terms liberal and conservative (nearly always paired in that descending order) are now so confused as to be almost entirely useless. Originally, liberal was used to denote the ideology that aimed at the liberation of human individuals from the restraints of Church establishments, aristocratic and monarchical privileges, and legal restrictions on business and international trade.
The Cabal Strikes Back
Ever since the exposure in the mainstream media last year of the neoconservatives as a fifth column that engineered the present boondoggle in Iraq, dragged the United States into a foreign war for the transparent benefit of Israel, and concocted what are now known to have been lies about Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction” and Saddam Hussein’s “links” to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the neoconservative cabal in both the Bush administration and the press has been on the defensive.
The Education of George Bush
Every area of American life, whether politics, economics, the arts, journalism, architecture and design, entertainment, sports, cuisine, dress, manners, morals, religion—everything with the obvious exception of the academy—reflects the mass taste and intellect of the American proletariat. While the American government wages perpetual war for perpetual peace internationally, the American public wars on civilized standards and morality at home.