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Neoconservativism in a Nutshell - LobeLog

... liberals feeling, in the words of Irving Kristol, “mugged by reality” in a way that launched them on a rightward trajectory. That trajectory ...

Is the Center Neoliberal? - The Philosophical Salon

... a liberal who's been mugged by reality.” This is why neocons are ... a liberal mode, rather than presenting liberalism as technical alternative to ...

(PDF) "A Liberal Is Someone Who Has Not Been Mugged": Criminal ...

ness and rehabilitation. Theoretical Issues. Explaining why mugging matters. Beyond suggesting that the reality of “being mugged” transforms political. views ...

Irving Kristol? | The Week

Irving Kristol famously called himself a liberal who had been “mugged by reality ... political movement known as neoconservatism. Kristol's advocacy of ...

What do you think of the saying “a conservative is a liberal whose ...

I was in Irving Kristol's book “An Autobiography of an Idea”. The quote is: “A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A ...

Libertarian Mugged by Reality | The Nation

Perhaps it's time to revise the old saw that the ivory tower breeds liberals, and the “real world” makes them conservative. Share. Facebook.

Chuck Reed: A Liberal Mugged by Pension Reality - WSJ

Mayor Chuck Reed knows the way to San Jose's solvency. Now he wants to take his approach statewide. Public unions aren't happy.

Irving Kristol, 1920-2009 - Slate Magazine

As for the image of a neoconservative as a liberal “mugged by reality”: Once people got over their affected fuss about the possible innuendo ...

Moynihan and the Neocons | National Affairs

Kristol famously described a neoconservative as a liberal mugged by reality. This was a liberal changed, a liberal who became something else. Moynihan was ...

Mugged by Reality - The Levelling

... a liberal who got mugged by reality but has not pressed charges'. Europe is being mugged by the reality of strategic competition but has not ...

Think Again: Neocons - Columbia International Affairs Online

"Neocons Are Liberals Who Have Been Mugged by Reality". No longer true ... liberal democratic values. Israel has won the support of most Americans, of ...

EDITORIAL: The growing rift on Colorado's left

... — i.e., a reformed leftist, like him — is “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.”

Rafi DeMogge is the pseudonym of an Israel-based author ... - Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table on Spotify. Voice was converted using elevenlabs.io You can follow him on Twitter @HeTows ...

Pondering Canadian neo-conservatism - Policy Options

... mugged by reality” in the famous catch phrase of Irving Kristol—who recoiled ... A second reason for neo-conservative weakness in Canada is, yes, the liberal ...

Evgeny Morozov on X: "Everyone knows Irving Kristol's defintion of ...

... his (apt) definition of neoliberals not better known (“A neoliberal is a liberal who got mugged by reality but has not pressed charges”)?

Irving Kristol: Writer and thinker known as the godfather of ...

... conservative dominance of American politics. "A liberal who has been mugged by reality," was Kristol's definition of a neo-conservative, a ...

A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

... a liberal who's been mugged by reality.” A Thousand Small Sanities' author Adam Gopnik might counter that nonliberals mugged by reality ...

Where did the "conservatives are just liberals who got mugged ...

It's just a different way of saying the same sentiment that's been said for decades: "If you're not a liberal at 25, you have no heart.

“A Liberal Is Someone Who Has Not Been Mugged”: Criminal ...

In fact, conservative pundits have, in essence, set forth this view in what we broadly term the “mugging thesis.” They suggest that the “reality” of being.

John Kass: Liberal governors, mayors mugged by reality in Floyd ...

Liberal Democratic governors and mayors have been mugged by reality. They're suffering from shock, as violence and looting rage on. And what ...


Melanie Phillips

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Melanie Phillips is a British public commentator. She began her career writing for The Guardian and New Statesman. During the 1990s, she came to identify with ideas more associated with right-wing politics and the far-right and currently writes for The Times, The Jerusalem Post, and The Jewish Chronicle, covering political and social issues from a socially conservative perspective.