Paul D. Miller (academic)

"Many of the famed New York intellectuals of the 1930s and 1940s who later shaped neoconservatism, including Norman Podhoretz, Nathan Glazer, and Irving Kristol, were either immigrants or first-generat…"

"Neoconservatives were disillusioned liberals who defected from the Democratic Party and the progressive movement in the 1960s in part because of the waste and bloat of the Great Society. As good liber…"

"What’s wrong with empowering government? When you give government new powers and responsibilities, you are also increasing its police power. If we put government in charge of a thing — say, ensuring i…"

"Socialism is a bad idea because it is naïve about power, which is the worst thing to be naïve about in politics."

"ocialism violates economic freedom, destroys incentive, muffles innovation and entrepreneurship, and undermines meritocracy."

"Any time you want to grant the government new authority, imagine it in the hands of the worst statesmen in American history."

"The Soviet Union was the largest, longest, and most ambitious effort to implement socialism in human history. It was also an evil, totalitarian slave state that survived only by militarizing all of so…"