Joseph Dorman
By Joseph Dorman
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News Daniel Bell, 91, a Leading American Intellectual Who Eschewed Simplistic Labels
Asked as a young man what he specialized in, Daniel Bell, a member of the second generation of New York intellectuals who came bursting out of City College in the 1930s blurted out, “I specialize in generalizations!” It was said with youthful intellectual exuberance at first, and then wryly repeated as the years wore on…
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News Irving Kristol, a Broker of Ideas Who Helped Create a Movement
There has been a flurry of obituaries and appreciations of Irving Kristol in recent days. And rightly so. Whether you admire his conservative ideas or loathe them, his mark on American politics is undeniable. He was, simply put, a key architect of the conservative revolution of the 1970s and 1980s that altered the Republican Party,…
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News All in Favor of the Long View, Say Nyet
The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century By Michael Mandelbaum Public Affairs, 512 pages, $30. * * *| It’s been almost 12 years since the first President George Bush, flush with triumph in the Cold War and victory over Iraq, declared a burgeoning New World Order with…
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