Vidal. Who are the great American thinkers on the right?
2007-12-27 07:43:51 · 6 answers · asked by justgoodfolk 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
links very muc apreciated. Thanks
2007-12-27 07:44:15 · update #1
BSTinasMan. I did the spellcheck but am not a native speaker. Thanks for your input
2007-12-27 07:52:36 · update #2
There are a lot, if intellectual honesty is not a criteria.
* Pat Buchanan - http://news.yahoo.com/i/2695
William F. Buckley - http://news.yahoo.com/i/128
Charles Krauthammer - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401690.html
The boys at weeklystandard including: Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes, John Podhoretz
Norman (bomb Iran) Podhoertz -http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=PodhNorm
* intellectually honest (most of the time)
2007-12-27 07:50:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Intellectuals on the right - sort of an oxymoron really.
So would be "intellectuals on the left" if we were being honest about it.
It just so happens that the left wing puts priority on education so it seems to fit better at this moment.
Good ideas generally defy classification in politics... they are generally the ideas that prevent the right or left from ruining everything.
By today's standards, Republicans like Abraham Lincoln would have been considered leftists too...
2007-12-27 16:26:28 · answer #2 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely no "intellectual" will identify themselves as being on the right or the left. They may identify themselves as conservative, libertarian, progressive, etc. Left and right are terms for non-intellectuals and the corporate press.
Probably one of the best conservative intellectuals still alive is William F. Buckley. There are a few more obscure college professors and the like. Some may say George Will, but in my humble opinion Will is an idiot with a thesaurus.
2007-12-27 15:54:31 · answer #3 · answered by john_in_dc 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Som e intellectuals are Pat Buchanan, Russell Kirk, Wm Buckley, Ayn Rand ,Prof. Ernest Van den Haag, Jeannie Kirkpatrick. They are intellectuals but they make me sick
2007-12-27 15:53:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Going by your spelling, you're NOT of "todays intelectuals"..
BTW, the right has plenty of rubes and uneducated, toothless hicks, so don't even try to go there. You're probably thinking of the wealthy businessmen from Exxon and Halliburton who know how to use war to make money.
2007-12-27 15:49:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
There are none.
2007-12-27 15:51:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋