another vaguely senile ramble saying nothing concrete at great length about an article you purport to see no value in whatsoever. Most people would regard the use of ‘left’ and ‘right’ as useful and rerlecting real political formations. People like Irving Kristol certainly did. Take a pill, pull up your blanket and wait for nurse.

Niall

as to how many of the neocons were Trotskyists the answer is most of them - Kristol, Himmelfarb, Nathan Glazer, Irving Howe, and so on and on. It was simply a 20th century political transition, of interest and importance. If you’re suggesting that it’s anti-semitic to talk about the origins of neo-conservatism in a Jewish intellectual milieu, you’ll have to include Kristol and others as anti-semitic, cos they reflected on this topic at length, you ignorant clown.