The art of honest obituary writing died with Christopher Hitchens.https://twitter.com/Eric_Alterman/status/1524018772377542659 …
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Neoconservatism was polemical rather than really about ideas, though. In that sense it may be to Himmelfarb’s credit that she’s not so well known for her place in the gang. (
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She wasn't polemical but the synthesis she made between Victorian moralism and anti-communism was important for Cold War liberalism and prepared path for neo-con turn (and, more broadly, Thatcherite "family values").
@samuelmoyn's lecture on her is great on this.
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