What comes after Donald Trump' What compelling social vision can replace MAGA's offerings and reverse the tide of global populism' In considering these questions, I find myself returning to an unlikely group of 20th-century thinkers: the neoconservatives. These days, when people hear the word neocons, they tend to think of Republicans who supported the Iraq War. But the notoriety the neocons attained for supporting that war has obscured their origins as a dissident faction within the American left, one that was staunchly anti-communist but mostly preoccupied with domestic policy. Here's why the original neocon thinkers'people such as Irving Kristol, James Q. Wilson, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan'can be so helpful right now: They focused their attention on the bloody crossroads where morality and politics intersect. They saw politics through the lens of not only polling and social-science data, but also literature, philosophy, psychology, and theology. They asked the...
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