Why conservatives can’t govern–and why conservative ideas will continue to flop
Even as many leading conservatives have conceded various Bush administration failures, they have mainly blamed incompetence rather than the real culprit: the policies that the right advocated for years as it successfully waged the "war of ideas." Respected commentator Greg Anrig connects the dots linking the conservative movement’s well-funded network of thinkers and advocates to the disasters of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, New Orleans, the federal budget, and other travesties.
Greg Anrig (New York, NY) is Vice President of programs at The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, and former Washington correspondent for Money magazine. He has written online for the American Prospect and Mother Jones, co-edited volumes of essays about civil liberties, immigration, and Social Security, and is a regular contributor to the liberal blog tpmcafe.com.
