Confronting the New Conservatism – The Rise of the Right in America Thompson

Confronting the New ConservatismThe Rise of the Right in America\nAuthor(s): Michael Thompson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814782996, 978-0814782996\nSynopsis\nWilliam Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, George F. Will, and Dick Cheney. These are today's neoconservatives\""confident, clear-cut, and a political force to be reckoned with. But how should we define this new conservatism? What is new about it? In this volume, some of today's top political scholars take on the charge of explaining, defining, and confronting the new conservatism of the last twenty-five years. The authors examine the ideas, policies and roots of this ideological movement showing that contemporary neoconservatism has been able to blend many of the aspects of social conservatismsuch as religious populism and nationalismwith economic liberalism and the rhetoric of equality of opportunity and indivi.