2. Say your worst about these figures -- Lewis' Orientalism & downplaying of Armenian genocide, Pipes' Team B threat inflation & over-reaction to revisionists -- and you still had men who wrote deep, challenging, pathbreaking books.
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3. It's hard to think of figures of comparable learning among contemporary right -- or am I wrong?
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4. To put it another way, I think there was a period where it was useful to read some intellectuals (say Hayek or Burnham) to try & understand the right. That's not true at all in Trump era, where you're better off watching Hannity.
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There's a book to be written called "Reversion Towards the Mean: Second Generation Neo-Cons"
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Sure, like John Bolton, who is their “heir” just like Damien was to Gregory Peck in that movie
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If you think Thomas Sowell is an intellectual or an heir of Lewis and Pipes, you might be in a bubble yourself.
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Both used Ivy League cover to maximum advantage.
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Have you ever tried to say fewer words?
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