http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/04/08/this-book-is-not-about-what-this-book-is-not-about/ n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:09:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/04/08/this-book-is-not-about-what-this-book-is-not-about/comment-page-1/#comment-12290 Paleo myopia? « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:23:59 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/04/08/this-book-is-not-about-what-this-book-is-not-about/#comment-12290 [...] Thirdly and finally, I want to note that one thing that seems to be being largely passed over in this discussion is the ways in which our country’s domestic and foreign policies are almost essentially interwoven. An aggressively interventionist Fatherland Security state that spends huge amounts of money on tapping wires and waging wars national defense and international democracy promotion but still keeps taxes low and respects the civic autonomy of its little platoons may be a conceptual possibility, but it’s not at all clear that it can be anything more real than that. Hence Grand New Party’s decision to deal only with the domestic side of the equation may be more of a defect than Daniel indicated a while back: not because the GOP is an essentially “nationalistic” party that needs an appropriately structured foreign agenda, but rather because there’s good reason to think that the neoconservative agenda is in severe tension if not outright conflict with the traditionally conservative view of civil society and the state. [...] [...] Thirdly and finally, I want to note that one thing that seems to be being largely passed over in this discussion is the ways in which our country’s domestic and foreign policies are almost essentially interwoven. An aggressively interventionist Fatherland Security state that spends huge amounts of money on tapping wires and waging wars national defense and international democracy promotion but still keeps taxes low and respects the civic autonomy of its little platoons may be a conceptual possibility, but it’s not at all clear that it can be anything more real than that. Hence Grand New Party’s decision to deal only with the domestic side of the equation may be more of a defect than Daniel indicated a while back: not because the GOP is an essentially “nationalistic” party that needs an appropriately structured foreign agenda, but rather because there’s good reason to think that the neoconservative agenda is in severe tension if not outright conflict with the traditionally conservative view of civil society and the state. [...]

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