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abortion, 38, 45 bad conduct foreign affairs and, 43 good conduct v., 70–71 neoconservatism and, 47 Baker, James, 123 Abrams, Elliott, 121 Barnes, Fred, 40 Afghanistan, 28 Barnett, Randy, xvii al Qaeda, 28 Barrett, William, 117 American Political Science Review,7 Bartley, Robert, 39 American Revolution, xvi, 33 Bauer, Gary, 46 American War of Independence, 29 Bentham, Jeremy, 77 Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), Berlin Wall, 109, 147 116 Bewley, Truman, 77 Anscombe, G.E.M., 44 Bible, 42 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, 28 bin Laden, Osama, 146 antidiscrimination laws, 21, 96, 97 biotechnology, 25, 37 justification of, 99 Francis Fukuyama on, 44–45 anti-Semitism, 118 Birnbaum, Norman, 118 aristocracy, 11 blockage of view, 98 Aristotle, 22, 51, 58, 132 Atlantic Charter, 114 Bloom, Alexander, 112 Auden, W.H., 34 Bloom, Allan, 119 Augustine, 41 Bonald, Louis de, 15 Austrian economics, 52–53 Bottum, Joseph, xv–xvi autonomy, 84 Brave New World (Huxley), 45 libertarianism and, 86–88 Brezhnev Doctrine, 147 British Empire, 29 Babbit, Irving, 4 Brooks, David, 109, 124 Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative hberco ix Mp_160 rev1 page 160

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Brownson, Orestes, 29–30, 32 common law, 59 Buchanan, Pat, 39–40, 124 communism, 27, 37, 38, 45–46, 112 on neoconservatism, 106–7 in America, 111, 116–17 Buckley Jr., William F., 125 fall of, 36, 46, 147, 150 Burke, Edmund, 4, 10, 12, 19, 107 neoconservatism and, 147–48 on family, 20 totalitarianism and, 148 Kirk Russell on, 16 compleat liberalism, 15 Burnham, James, 114–15 Confessions (Augustine), 41 on Joseph Stalin, 115 consequentialist analysis, 57, 60, 62 Bush, George W., 21, 27–28, 105, 107, moral rights v., 57–59 123, 126, 129 conservatism military policy of, 126, 127 as autonomous body of ideas, 8 classical, xiv Calhoun, John C., 32 defining, 31 capital liberal, 16–17 distribution of, 26 libertarianism and, 72–74 capitalism, 143 social, 37, 39–40. See also globalizing, xv neoconservatism, traditionalist neoconservatism and, 143–44, 145 conservatism Catholicism, 32, 33 conservative liberalism, 17–18 character deformation, 80 The Conservative Mind (Kirk), xiv, 5, 8, character development 16, 33 autonomy and, 86–88 Constitution, xvi, 7 contract and, 89–97 president qualifications in, 77 incentives and, 78 contra bones mores,99 legal rules and, 85–86 contract libertarian view on, 75–76 character development and, 89–97 property rights and, 88–89 convergence, 56 children, 22 Cornell University, 119 Christianity, 13, 14, 32, 42–43 corporate management, 26 Churchill, Winston, 148 Council on Bioethics, 44–45 claims of right, 60 disputes and, 61 Declaration of Independence, 35 classical conservatism, xiv DeLay, Tom, 123 classical liberalism, 81–82 Diamond, Jared, 43 fundamental rights of, 67 difference, 133 Clay, Henry, 124 dignity, 25 Clinton, Bill, xxi, 27, 123 liberalism and, 58 cloning, 38, 45 disagreement Cockburn, Alexander, 106 manifestation of, 130–31 Cohen, Elliot, 111, 115–16 Discourse on the Constitution and Cold War, 27–28, 107, 125 Government of the United States Irving Kristol on, 117 (Calhoun), 32 Colson, Chuck, 46 Disquisition on Government (Calhoun), 32 Committee on Present Danger, 128 divergence, 56 Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative hberco ix Mp_161 rev1 page 161

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Dolluss, Engelbert, 111 freedom, 133 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 45 demands on, 134 Drew, Elizabeth, 106 equality and, 134 drugs, 25 individual, 136 duties, 69 Freedom of Contract, 67 moral v. legal, 79 French Revolution, xv–xvi, 5, 7–8, 15, universal, 82 26, 34 Friedman, Milton, 52, 54 economic order Frum, David, 40, 127 liberal, 142–47 Fukuyama, Francis, 36 economics on biotechnology, 44–45 Austrian, 52–53 Fuller, Lon, 59 education on morality of law, 61–62 traditionalists on, 22–24 on natural rights, 69 Egypt, 118 fusionism, 40 Ehrman, John, 110 endpoints, 136–37 gay marriage, 22 reaching, 136n8 Gemeinschaft,19 The End of History and the Last Man Genovese, Kitty, 79 (Fukuyama), 36 Germany, 111–12, 120 Enlightenment, 14, 37, 41 Gershman, Carl, 113 Epstein, Richard, xviii Gesellschaft,19 equality gift promises, 80 demands on, 134–35 Glazer, Nathan, 120 freedom and, 134 globalization, 146 neoconservative view on, 152n22 good conduct ethics, 58 bad conduct v., 70–71 Evangelicism, 33, 36–37 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 145 exceptionalism, 152–53 Guns, Germs, and Steel,43 Family Marriage Act, 99 Hamilton, Alexander, 124 fascism, 15n12, 112 harm principle, 82 Federalist papers, 7 liberty and, 83 Feith, Douglas, 107 harms firing regulations, 94–95 definition of, 97 First Possession, 67 libertarian view on, 97–100 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 32 Hartz, Louis, 7 FitzGerald, Frances, 109 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 31–32 for-cause rules, 94–96 Hayek, F.A., 6 foreign affairs on social order, 63–64 abortion and, 43–44 Hayek, Friedrich, 52 neoconservative view on, 149–50 Hegel, G.W.F., 36 traditionalist views on, 26–29 Henrie, Mark, xiv, xv Frankenstein (Shelley), 45 Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 112 fraud, 91 Hindus, Maurice, 111 free market, 25 hiring regulations, 94–95 Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative hberco ix Mp_162 rev1 page 162

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Hitchens, Christopher, 126 on Edmund Burke, 16 Hitler, Adolf, 111–12, 114 impact of, 4–5 Holmes, Stephen, 13 on moral imagination, 6–7 home-schooling, 24 Kissinger, Henry, 120, 121, 122 Hook, Sidney, 111, 112 Kristol, Irving, xx, 108, 112, 114, 115 Irving Kristol and, 113 on Cold War, 117 Horner, Charles, 121 Sidney Hook and, 113 Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of on neoconservatism, 139–40 Excellence in the Arts and Sciences Kristol, William, 40, 107, 124, 125 (Murray), 42 Kyl, Jon, 128 human nature, 5 Kyoto Treaty, 27 Huntington, Samuel P., 7, 8, 9, 11, 13 Hussein, Sadam, xxi, 28, 123 labor, xix Hutson, James, 35 lament, 11–12 Huxley, Aldous, 45 landlords, 93 Lasch, Christopher, 116 ideology, 5 Latin America, 142 neoconservative, 141 legal decisions purity of, 52 casuistic, 60 Ikenberry, G. John, 106 legal duties imperfect rights, 69 moral duties and, 79 improvement, 62–63 legal enterprise, 70 incentives legal evolution, 59–63 character development and, 78 legal theory individuality, 4 in libertarianism, 76–77 An Intellectual History of Liberalism legislation (Manent), 13 enacting, 61 internal morality of law, 61–62 Lenin, Vladimir, 110 Iraq, 28, 105 liberal conservatism, 16–17 The Island of Dr. Moreau (Stevenson), 45 liberal economic order, 142–47 Israel, 108–9, 118 liberal order, 155n25 liberal politics, 133–34 Jackson, Henry, xxi, 121 liberal space The Jew as Radical (Hindus), 111 extending, 147–51 job training, 140 liberalism, xvi, xxii, 13–14 John Paul II, 32 boxing in, 14–19 Johnson, Samuel, 16, 24 Judaism, 111 on children, 22–23 justice, 15 classical, 64, 67, 81–82 compleat, 15 Kaaren, Jessie, 114 conservative, 17–18 Kagan, Robert, 124 constitutive properties of, 133 Kass, Leon, 44 dignity and, 58 Kazin, Alfred, 114 family views of, 21 Kennan, George F., 115, 116 ideology in, 5–6 Kirk, Russell, xiv, 3, 8, 29, 33 modernity and, 36 Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative hberco ix Mp_163 rev1 page 163

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natural rights and, 65 Mansfield, Harvey, 139n10 neoconservatism and, 137, 156 market regulation, 26 postwar, 138–39 marriage, 20–21 religion and, 42 Marshall Plan, 125 universal, 151–52 Marxism, 34, 143–44 libertarianism, xvii, xviii, 5, 36–37 Mayflower Compact, 31, 35 autonomy and, 86–88 McCarthy, Joseph, xx, 117 character development in, 75–76 Mencken, H.L., 4 conservatism and, 72–74 Meyer, Frank, 39 contract in, 89–97 fusionism of, 40 development of, 51 Middle East, 109, 126 entitlements, 81–84 Mill, John Stuart, 4, 33, 44, 77 fundamental beliefs of, 64 harm principle of, 82, 83 on harms, 97–100 minimax principle, 82 inalienable rights according to, 67 Mises, Ludwig von, 52–53 legal theory in, 76–77 modernity, 37 moral neutrality in, 72 liberalism and, 36 moral systems in, 76 modes of analysis, 56 neoconservatism differentiated from, Mont Pelerin Society, 25 17–18 Moore, G.E., 44 on property rights, 67–68 moral duties redistribution and, 86–88 legal duties and, 79 on regulation, 100–101 moral imagination, 6 social conservatism and, 39–40 moral rights, 57, 60, 62 welfare position in, 84–85 consequentialism v., 58–59 liberty, 6 morality, xiii harm principle and, 83 of law, 61–62 Lieberman, Joseph I., 128 neutrality and, 72 Lieven, Anatol political philosophy v., 55 on neoconservatives, 106 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 108, 120 Lindberg, Tod, xxi Muller, Jerry Z., 46 Lippman, Walter, 116 Muravchik, Joshua, 110, 113, 123 Lipset, Seymour Martin, 112 Murray, Charles, 42 Locke, John, 7, 33, 51, 84 on education, 22–23 Narveson, Jan, 55 logic, 58 natural law, 35–36 Lomasky, Loren, 55 natural rights loss, 11 abstract, 67–68 Lynd, Straughton, 117 defining, 65 exceptions and, 71–72 MacDonald, Dwight, 113, 114 perfect v. imperfect, 69 Machan, Tibor, 55 social order and, 68, 70 Mack, Eric, 55 Nazism, xx, 112, 113 Maistre, Joseph de, 15, 27 neoconservatism, xix–xx Manent, Pierre, 13 abortion and, 47 Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative hberco ix Mp_164 rev1 page 164

164 index neoconservatism (continued) Our Posthuman Future (Fukuyama), 44– American exceptionalism in, 152 45 on bourgeois values, 144–45 Pat Buchanan on, 106–7 paleoconservatism, 18n14, 106–7, 107 on capitalism, 143–44, 145 paper money, 132 communism and, 147–48 parental rights, 132 currents of, 155–56 partisan politics, xiii definition of, 129 perfect rights, 69 emergence of, 138 Perle, Richard, 107, 108, 109, 121, 123 on equality, 152n22 Pipes, Richard, 121 on foreign affairs, 149–50 Plato, 22 history of, 108–9 Pledge of Allegiance, 45, 83 Irving Kristol on, 139–40 Podhoretz, Norman, 9, 117, 118, 120, liberalism and, 137, 156 122, 123 libertarianism differentiated from, 17– political philosophy 18 morality v., 55 on Middle East, 109–10 Ponnuru, Ramesh, 125 moralism of, 147–48 pornography, 25 origins of, 110–15 Powell, Colin, 110 political influence of, 120–28 power public policy in, 140 use of, 73–74 Dimitri Simes on, 105. See also The Present Danger (Podhoretz), 122 conservatism, traditionalist private property, 81–82 conservatism private sphere, 57 Neuhaus, Richard John, 38 progressiveness, xvi, 12 New Conservatism Promise Keepers, 21 development of, xiv–xv property rights, xix, 84, 85, 93 reaction to, 7–9 character development and, 88–89 New Deal, 4, 115 harms and, 98 New Left, xx, 118 libertarianism and, 66–67 Niebuhr, Reinhold, 42 prostitution, 25 Nietzsche, 132 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Ninth Circuit, 45 Capitalism, 143 Nisbet, Robert, 3 Protestant Reformation, 14–15 Nixon Center, 105 Protestantism, 143 Nixon, Richard, 120, 122 The Public Interest (Wolfson), 9 Nock, Albert Jay, 4 public policy nostalgia, 11 economic, 24–26 Novak, Michael, 32, 35 education, 22–24 Nozick, Robert, 135 family, 19–22 Nuechterlein, James, 122 foreign affairs, 26–29 nursing homes, 25 in neoconservatism, 140 public school, 24 offense, 98–99 religion in, 82–83 On Two Wings (Novak), 35 public sphere, 57 Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative hberco ix Mp_165 rev1 page 165

index 165 pursuit of happiness, 64 Simes, Dimitri on neoconservatism, 105 Rand, Ayn, 51 Singer, Peter, 44 Rasmussen, Douglas, 55 slavery, 132, 135 rationalism, 5 Smith, George H., 54, 55 Rawls, John, 22, 135 social conservatism, 37 minimax principle of, 82 libertarianism and, 39–40 Reagan Doctrine, 149, 150 social Darwinism, 85–86 Reagan, Ronald, xxi, 37, 40, 109, 122 social judgments, 90–91 reality, 141 social order redistribution goals and, 71 libertarianism and, 86–88 F. A. Hayek, on, 63–64 regulation, 26 natural rights and, 68, 70 libertarian view on, 100–101 socialism, xv, xx, 24–25, 111–12 religion, xiii, 37 Sorensen, Theodore, 118 liberalism and, 42 Soros, George, 106 public schools and, 82–83 Soviet Union, 108–9, 111, 117, 122–23, Renaissance, 14–15 142, 145, 149, 151–52 rental market, 93, 94 Stalin, Joseph, 115 Restitution, 67 Stalinism, 112–13, 114–15, 115 Revolution of 1776, 31 Stevenson, Adlai, 8 rights. See imperfect rights; moral rights; Stevenson, Robert Louis, 45 natural rights; parental rights; perfect Strategic Defense Initiative, 122 rights; property rights; women’s Strauss, Leo, 119 rights Strickland, Ted Rise of Neoconservatism (Ehrman), 110–11 on theology, 38 Roberts, Paul Craig, 124 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Roepke, Wilhelm, 25 Committee, 118 Romanticism, 6 Suarez, Francisco, 35 Roosevelt, Franklin, 113, 124 New Deal of, 4 Taft, Robert, 27, 125 Rothbard, Murray, 51, 53–54 Tarcov, Nathan, 119 on ideological purity, 52 taxation, 86–87 Roy, Arundhati, 106 Tocqueville, Alexis de, 6–7, 10, 12–13 rule of law, 59–63 totalitarianism, 130 sacrifice, 20 communism and, 148 Santayana, George, 4 traditionalist conservatism, 10–11, 12–13, The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), 31 14 Schachtman, Max, 113 economic policy of, 24–26 selection effect, 78 education policy of, 22–24 Self-Defense, 67 family policy of, 19–22 September 11, 2001, xxi, 109, 125 on foreign affairs, 26–29 Several Property, 67 goals of, 17–18 Sharon, Ariel, 108 as social criticism, 14–15. See also Shelley, Mary, 45 conservatism, neoconservatism Hoover Press : Berkowitz/Conservative hberco ix Mp_166 rev1 page 166

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Trilling, Lionel, 111, 115 Warsaw Pact, 147 Trotsky, Leon, 112, 114, 115 Washington, George, 41 tuition tax, 23–24 Weaver, Richard M., 3 Weber, Max, 143 utilitarianism, 5 Weigel, George, 46 Uyl, Douglas Den, 55 welfarist position, 87 Viereck, Peter, 3 libertarianism and, 84–85 Vietnam, 108–9, 116, 121 Wells, H.G., 45 virtue, xix, xxii, 16 Whig party, 16 agriculture and, 11 Who Are We? (Huntington), 9 Aristotelian, 58 Wilkerson, Larry, 110 bourgeois, 13 Will, George F., 107, 124 Christian, 13 Williams, William Appleman, 117 good life and, xvii Wilson, Woodrow, 28 libertarianism and, xix, 100 Wohlstetter, Albert, 112, 114, 121 maintaining, 41 Wolfowitz, Paul, 107, 110, 123 Protestant ethics, capitalism and, 143– Wolfson, Adam, 8, 9, 40 44 women’s rights, 132, 135 voluntary transactions work ethic, 143 government regulations on, 92 Workers’ Party, 113 World War II, xiv, 3, 27, 112 Wallace, Henry, 116 Wal-Mart, 25–26 Zionism, 119