The “Neocon Cabal”: Its Roots and Resonances

by Sam Bluefarb (January 2014)

By Way of Introduction

Partisan Review—PR. 3 Orwell was seriously wounded and Koestler was eventually freed in a prisoner-of-war exchange, after a grueling three months on death row in a Franco Nationalist prison. Thus their “take” on communism carried more weight than the demagogic anti-communism of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Ironically it swept up in his hysteria-driven net, liberals, and even more than a few innocent members of church-affiliated groups. 

December, 2012

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Commentary magazine can legitimately be called neoconservatives, or neocons.

i.e., in the global scope of their radically unlike goals.