One of the most irritating things about mainstream media coverage of the Bush administration, including its coverage of the commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence, is its pervasive use of the word “conservative” to describe the administration’s (and Libby’s) core supporters. To me, this has given respectable semantic cover to what really are a collection of [...]
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While it has been reported elsewhere, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) officially announced Monday that Paul Wolfowitz, whose resignation from the World Bank presidency took effect over the weekend, is joining its ranks as a visiting scholar. As the press release below makes clear, it seems that his work at AEI will not be focused [...]
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The first, “Why Winston Wouldn’t Stand for W,” will no doubt provoke conniptions at the American Enterprise Institute and the editorial offices of the Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, and Commentary magazine whose inhabitants have long seen themselves — and George W. Bush, at least in his first term — as the very embodiment [...]
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