Week 12. (1) Nationalisms of the New Left? Social Movements as Nation-Creators (2) Liberal Imperialism, aka Neo-conservatism, aka Paleo-social-liberalism: Left-liberals reject the New Left. (3) Multiculturalism, aka the New Left in Middle Age: Contrary of Civic Republicanism, A Variety of Liberalism, Destroyer of Class Solidarity?
Brian Walker, "Social Movements as Nationalisms; or, On the Very Idea of a Queer Nation," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 26, Supplementary Volume 22 (1997): 505-547
Irving Kristol, "The Neoconservative Persuasion," The Weekly Standard 25 August 2003
Andrew Heywood, “Multiculturalism,” Political Ideologies, pp. 310-333
So you'd like a brief overview of "neo-conservative" (paleo-social-liberal) principles, pointing out how un-conservative and radical they seem, as well as describing Christopher Hitchens's spectacular conversion from social democrat to neo-con/paleo-social-liberal after the Iraq War...
Watch "Hitch-Cocked: A Conversation with Christopher Hitchens" (2005)
So you'd like to see how neo-conservatives/paleo-liberals arose out of the old liberal socialist alliance, in reaction to the New Left...
Watch "Arguing the World," dir. Joseph Dorman (1998)
Read Justin Vaisse, Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement (Harvard UP, 2010)
So you'd like to see a 21st-century liberal imperialist/neo-con/paleo-liberal outlook...
Check out The Weekly Standard, Commentary, The American Interest (the paleo-social-liberals' answer to Foreign Affairs), FrontPage Magazine (the neo-cons' watchdog on the New Left and global Islam), or most of what's now published in National Review (like this article, for example)
So you'd like to see a 21st-century neo-conservative journal of ideas...
Check out National Affairs
Neo-conservative/paleo-social-liberal think tanks
American Enterprise Institute, Hudson Institute, the Hoover Institution, the Claremont Institute (West-Coast Straussians), the Foreign Policy Initiative, David Horowitz Freedom Center
So you want proof that the neo-cons are liberals...
So you'd like to know more about imperialist ideologies....
Check out Duncan Bell, “Ideologies of Empire,” Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, pp. 536-562