The virus of neo-conservatism is spreading all over the world. I do not merely refer to the ideology, even if it is true that the bizarre idea of a  "conservative welfare state" (in Irving Kristol’s words) is gaining currency.  Indeed, the notion that such a chimera might come into existence is becoming popular everywhere (among English conservatives as well as among Italian right-wingers, for example). But I'm also referring to the distinctive "flavor" of neo-conservatism, which seems to me the typical output of a standard human experience. "Neo-conservatism," properly speaking, is supposed to be an almost completely American phenomenon: other … Continue reading Lenin to Oriana Fallaci