Neo-conservatism/ Paleo-social-liberalism: Social Liberals Reject the New Left

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...

They're currently planning to support Hillary over Trump, and to destroy the Republican party, if that's what it takes to beat Trump.

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