The neoconservative movement began among liberal Democrats in the late 1960s as the Cold War consensus broke down over the Vietnam War. Key figures like Irving Kristol and intellectuals associated with Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson criticized the radicalization of the Democratic Party and Great Society programs. Kristol went on to ally with Ronald Reagan's presidency. Some analysts argue neoconservatism was influenced by the philosopher Leo Strauss's elitist view that a philosophical elite should guide the masses. Strauss had a negative view of capitalism and Lockean liberalism, and some interpret him and the neocons as seeing war as virtuous in molding the public.
To evaluate the impact of McCarthy’s charges; assess the views of his critics; question why Eisenhower didn’t do more to stop him; and articulate reasons for his downfall in 1954
To evaluate the impact of McCarthy’s charges; assess the views of his critics; question why Eisenhower didn’t do more to stop him; and articulate reasons for his downfall in 1954
A quiz on politics marking the centenary of the October Revolution, conducted at the Karnataa Quiz Association.
A collective effort of The Gang of Four - Praveen, Hrishi, Raju & Avinash.
Written quiz for teams of two; conducted for the Karnataka Quiz Association.
Note: Presentation has answers immediately after questions; no gaps exist.
A quiz on politics marking the centenary of the October Revolution, conducted at the Karnataa Quiz Association.
A collective effort of The Gang of Four - Praveen, Hrishi, Raju & Avinash.
Written quiz for teams of two; conducted for the Karnataka Quiz Association.
Note: Presentation has answers immediately after questions; no gaps exist.
“Rebooting after the economic crash: IT, ET and America 3.0.”
Professor Jonathan Taplin , USC Annenberg School and ARNIC
The financial crisis will leave the next president with the task of rebuilding a shattered American economy. Professor Taplin will describe the potential roles of information technology and energy technology in America 3.0.
PowerPoint developed for a series of lectures on Conservatism and delivered to PS 240 Introduction to Political Theory, Spring 2007 at the University of Kentucky by Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Instructor.
Brittany S CulverSeptember 14, 2016A Man’s Obsession wi.docxAASTHA76
Brittany S Culver
September 14, 2016
“A Man’s Obsession with the Perfect Race”
I’m taking an informative approach while arguing an opposing view to explain how one man would go so far to achieve his idea of a perfect race, through many different types of methods that were used to almost erase people that did not fit Hitler’s Aryan theory such as, experiments that were conducted in his beliefs in racial purity, on the Jews. With an insight in concentration camps and gas chambers, as well as important events such as the night of the broken glass. All these methods leading a crater in history forever lingering on the minds of human race.
Who was the man behind the Aryan theory? Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Austrian. Born out of wedlock to Maria Anna Schickelgruber. There is speculation about Hitler family line that he might have Jewish blood from his mother and his grandfather. In 2010, the British Paper the Daily Telegraph had samples from 39 of Hitler relatives to test their DNA and found it inconclusively to support that idea. Living in Linz, Hitler was a lover for visual arts. Hitler and his father were always clashing heads, both at different ends of the sticks. Nevertheless, Hitler made an effort on his dream. Hitler knew true poverty, and made enough to live before moving to Munich were he experienced the general antisemitism. Hitler had to depend on the Jews for his survival knowing that he had to survive on the Jews, this fact lead to his hatred for all Jews. After World War I, that is when Hitler begin to show, and accept, the “anti-Semitic” ideology. Hitler was greatly influenced by many powerful leaders and political movements that were against anyone that wasn’t German. One movement called: “The German Racist Nationalism” propagated by the upper Austrian Pan-German politician Georg von Schonerer. A powerful political leader the Mayor of Vienna Karl Lueger. There is not a lot of people that could impress Hitler. Lueger was the most influential person in Hitler life. Lueger reinforced antisemitism more into the society making it more practical and organizational than just an ideology and theory. Hitler begin to engage with the theory of The German Racist Nationalism, when the first outbreak of the First World War, Hitler was promoted to corporal with the Iron cross as a runner. Later down the road he was sent to Intelligence and Propaganda section. Where he found he was a master in giving speeches, charismatic, and persuading people to his side. His mission there was making speeches to the troops to promoting German nationalism and anti-Socialism. He was part of the German Worker’s Party, and very extreme anti-communist, Anti-Semitic right wing organization.
After enter the party he changes the party’s name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, (Nazi) This party, still today represents a combination of intense hatred for the politicians and citizens who they considered had dishonored Germany by signing the ...
Liberalism in the American Foreign PolicyIssa Adeli
Liberalism is the buzzword for foreign policy practitioners in the US. Patrick Kallahan, in his book, "Logics of American Foreign Policy, Theories of America’s World Role", explains why.
Modern Political Thought 1 POLS 2328 Modern Political Th.docxraju957290
Modern Political Thought 1
POLS 2328
Modern Political Thought
Spring 2018
Prof. Natalie Bormann
[email protected]
932 Renaissance Park
Office Hours: M 3-4, T 3-4, W 10-11
Paper 1 | A critical appraisal of the state
Instructions
In “Why Hitler’s world may not be so far away”, Timothy Snyder thinks about what leads people to become mass
killers; he points to the pivotal role of the state in this and argues, ‘the state stood in the middle of the story of those
who wished to kill the Jews, and of those who wished to save them’. Taking cues from this statement in particular, and
the article as a whole, discuss the following points:
1) Explain how Snyder’s view of the role of the state in the context of genocide connects with Hobbes
and Kropotkin. Apply the concepts of human nature and the state of nature to the theme of the article,
and as understood by Hobbes and Kropotkin.
2) Evaluate to what extent the state may be complicit in the possibility of acts of genocide.
3) Recommend how we ought to relate to arguments of the legitimacy and necessity of the state today.
Reading
1) Timothy Snyder on “Why Hitler’s world may not be so far away”. You can listen to the article as an
interview with Timothy Snyder here, read the text online here and find a copy in this document here.
2) Hobbes’ Leviathan
3) Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid
Due Friday February 2
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2015/sep/24/podcast-audio-longread-hitler-ethics-history
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/16/hitlers-world-may-not-be-so-far-away
Modern Political Thought 2
Some paper writing guidelines
Format
§ Papers should be around 1000 words long (-/+ 10% only! I will take half a grade off for longer papers)
§ Papers do not need to have a particular font, font size, or margin.
§ Papers need to be submitted through Turnitin on Blackboard. Please do not email me your paper.
Deadline
§ Papers can be submitted until the end of the day they are due (which means midnight).
§ There is a ‘grace period’ of 2 days within which you may submit (here: Sunday, February 4).
§ If you feel you cannot meet the deadline after the grace period has lapsed, you must meet with me to
discuss your ideas on the paper and to work on a schedule for submission. Not consulting me on late
submissions results in point deductions.
Questions about the paper
§ Extra office hours for this paper are as follows:
o Monday, Jan 29, 10-11am | Wednesday, Jan 31, 3-4pm | Thursday, Feb 1, 3-4pm.
§ The discussion groups are set up to address any questions about the paper you may have.
§ I also answer paper questions via email and am committed to reading paper outlines.
Sources
§ Papers should have traces of the original texts we read. Please make sure to include page references and
your source. You can decide on the citation style as long as you stay consistent with that style throughout
the paper.
§ You are invited to use additional resources (other texts, articles, books) ...
Presentation providing information on anti-religious like illuminati and freemasonry etc . and the various movements against all types of religions from 1700's till now.
International relations represent the study of foreign affairs and global issues among states including the roles of the states, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), non- governmental organizations (NGOs), and multinational corporations (MNCs). It is both an academic and public policy field, and can be either positive or normative as it seeks both to analyze as well as formulate the foreign policy of particular states. It is often considered as the branch of political science.
Apart from political science, IR draws upon such diverse fields as economics, history, law, philosophy, geography, sociology, anthropology, psychology and cultural studies. It involves diverse range of issues including but not limited to: globalization, state sovereignty, ecological sustainability, nuclear proliferation, nationalism, economic development, global finance, terrorism, organized crime, human security, foreign interventionism and human rights.
Homophile Movement Week 1
Our world today can learn from our past history of how to respond to oppression - first we are afraid, then we resist, and then we are free. This is not necessarily a linear movement.
It is cyclical.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...
The Betrayal of the American Right and the Rise of the Neoconservatives, Lecture 5 with David Gordon - Mises Academy
1. Betrayal of the Old Right,
Lecture 5
The Neoconservatives, Part 1
2. Beginnings
• The neocons are a separate group from the NR
conservatives. But they also reject laissez-faire
and non-interventionism.
• The neocon movement began among liberal
Democrats.
• During the late 1960s, the Cold War consensus
was breaking down. This consensus appealed to
many Democrats beginning with Truman.
3. The Truman Consensus
• The Truman Democrats accepted and tried
to extend FDR’s New Deal.
• In foreign policy, they favored the active
pursuit of the Cold War. There was a split
on the left in the 1948 between the anti-
communist supporters of Truman and the
Henry Wallace supporters.
4. Schlesinger
• The historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., gave an
account of this point of view in The Vital Center
(1949).
• Schlesinger said that an interventionist American
state would be ideally suited to wage a battle
against fascism and communism.
• A true conservative would favor conserving the
gains of the New Deal.
5. Breakdown of the Consensus
• In the 1960s, the Cold War consensus wasn’t
working well.
• The Vietnam War was unpopular. It led to about
58,000 American deaths and it wasn’t clear what
the US national interest was in defending South
Vietnam from the North Vietnamese communists.
• Why die to preserve the credibility of American
power?
6. Breakdown Continued
• The protests became very strong and questioned
American foreign policy completely.
• Groups like the SDS called for revolutionary
change in American society. There were riots at
the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
• In 1972, the Democrats nominate George
McGovern, who strongly criticized American
foreign policy. He called for a withdrawal from
Vietnam and a 37% reduction in defense spending.
7. Against the Critics
• Many Democrats did not like the McGovern
movement. They wanted to preserve the Cold War
consensus.
• A number of these people were associated with
Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson of Washington
He supported the New Deal and favored a strongly
anti-Soviet foreign policy. Paul Wolfowitz and
Richard Perle worked for him.
• He was strongly pro-Israel.
8. The Original Neocons
• A group of New York intellectuals became
associated with the critics of Democratic
party radicalism.
• Irving Kristol, Nathan Glazer, and Daniel
Bell grew up in New York. They attended
CCNY in the late 1930s and were
Trotskyites.
9. Glazer and Bell
• Glazer and Bell became sociologists. They were
journalists who became academics---both ended
up teaching sociology at Harvard.
• Both of them were more interested in domestic
policy than foreign policy.
• They didn’t reject LBJ’s Great Society entirely—
both were socialists—but they argued that many
of the programs weren’t working well.
10. Glazer and Bell Continued
• They argued that the Great Society programs
weren’t working because they didn’t address
fundamental problems of character among the
poor.
• These problems included lack of two-parent
families among blacks and high rates of out-of-
wedlock births.
• Bell argued that capitalism is self-undermining
because it leads to pleasure-seeking rather than the
virtues of hard work and enterprise.
11. G and B Concluded
• Both Bell and Glazer wrote for The Public
Interest, a magazine that attracted wide
interest because of its careful empirical
criticisms of Great Society programs.
• Neither of them ever changed from being
liberal Democrats. They eventually faded
out of the neocon movement.
12. Kristol
• The most important figure in the neocon
movement was Kristol.
• After WWII, he was associated with an
anti-Communist group called the Congress
for Cultural Freedom. He also worked for
Encounter magazine.
• Both of these received funding from the
CIA.
13. Kristol and the Neocons
• How does Kristol differ from Glazer and
Bell? Like them, he criticized the Great
Society for its lack of stress on virtuous
habits.
• After the Democratic Party didn’t go the
way he wanted, he allied with the Reagan
presidency. He became close to the NR
conservatives.
14. Kristol’s Ideas
• Kristol explicitly considered himself a neocon.
• He stressed that neoconservatism was more a style
of thought than an explicit body of doctrine.
Nevertheless, he in fact had definite ideas.
• He thought that “the idea of a welfare state is in
itself perfectly consistent with a conservative
political philosophy---as Bismarck knew a
hundred years ago.”
15. Ideas Continued
• Kristol was very much influenced by Herbert
Croly’s The Promise of American Life. This called
for a new American nationalism.
• The role of the government was to guide the
people. Kristol has little use for individual rights,
taken apart from public duties. He did not view the
American Revolution as a radical assertion of
human rights.
16. Kristol and Capitalism
• Kristol opposed socialism. He argued
against egalitarian policies. He asked, if
equality is desirable, how much equality
should we have? There isn’t a clear
criterion.
• Nevertheless, he criticized capitalism for
leading to selfishness. It must be guided by
the state.
17. Kristol and Foreign Policy
• Kristol was primarily a writer on domestic policy,
to the extent he wrote on policy issues. Many of
his essays were on the history of ideas. His wife,
Gertrude Himmelfarb, was a leading intellectual
historian.
• His approval of Croly and the new nationalism
shows his willingness to approve of an aggressive
foreign policy. The concentration on foreign
policy became much more important for the later
neocons, like William Kristol, Irving Kristol’s
son.
18. Kristol and Strauss
• Although Kristol stressed that neoconservatism
wasn’t a fixed philosophy, C. Bradley Thompson,
in Neoconservatism: An Obituary for An Idea, has
presented a strong argument that Kristol’s views
did have a philosophical source.
• This source was Leo Strauss. Kristol said that
reading Strauss was the most important
intellectual event of his life.
• Milton Himmelfarb, Kristol’s brother-in-law,
wrote about Strauss and showed a detailed
knowledge of his work.
19. Strauss and Elitism
• Interpreting Strauss is controversial, but one way
to take him is that the people must be guided by a
philosophical elite. Compared to the philosophers,
the masses aren’t really human beings. It is
justifiable to deceive the masses.
• Strauss defended natural law and Rothbard is
sympathetic to this. But the question is, what is the
content of natural law? Does this allow rule by a
philosophical elite?
20. Virtue
• Why does the public have to be guided by the
philosophers? Besides the general point that the
masses are inferior, there is an additional point
that enters the scene with the rise of capitalism.
• Capitalism encourages each person to think of his
own material interests above all else.
Acquisitiveness becomes the primary virtue. The
philosophical elite has to counteract this.
21. Strauss and Capitalism
• Strauss had a very negative view of John Locke.
He saw Locke as basically a Hobbesian. He
preached acquisitiveness as the primary virtue and
was in essence a utilitarian. Strauss downplays
Locke’s approval of natural rights.
• Strauss was a friend of the British socialist
historian R.H.Tawney, who sponsored his
academic career in England. Tawney condemned
capitalism for its fall from the more harmonious
society of the Middle Ages.
22. Virtue and War
• Although the philosophical life is the highest
possible, great power politics also has value.
• Strauss was influenced by Carl Schmitt, the
controversial German political thinker.
• War provides one means that people can develop
virtue, e.g., courage. They becoming willing to
sacrifice. This is the key to Thompson’s
interpretation of neocon foreign policy---the
neocons promote war in order to mold the public.