David: Your LRC blog today discussing George Will reminded me of his egregious article, “In Defense of the Welfare State,” The New Republic, May 9, 1983, where he cites the great “conservative” Otto von Bismarck as setting the precedent for what was to follow with the welfare-warfare state. I still have a faded photocopy of it to remind me of where this Tory socialist is coming from. Yet it was both Will and William F. Buckley Jr. who broke the ground for the neoconservative contagion that now dominates National Review and the phony “conservative movement.” I always thought that I was … Continue reading Re: Dropping the Pilot