Re: Neoliberalism pronounced dead

On Mar 11, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Carl Remick wrote:

[It’s nice to learn that neoliberalism has supposedly died

But Brooks is using it in the old, quirky American (as in USian)
sense of neoliberalism - what was known long ago as the Atari
Democrats. Socially liberal, high-tech loving, welfare-disliking, a
la Gary Hart. Alex Cockburn once described it as a masthead in search
of a movement - the masthead being that of The Washington Monthly.

Tom Frank has signed on to the new New Republic? He did blurb Peter
Beinart’s book on how we need a return to the old Scoop Jackson Dems,
so I shouldn’t be surprised, but it’s sad to hear that.

Doug

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