May
14, 2003, 4:00 p.m. Blairing
Insights
The
big story on the paper of record.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. First, in response
to a number of requests, I'm going to do a big, multipart G-File over
several days on "The Death of Neoconservatism" or some such.
First installment will appear Friday.
2. It's finally happened.
After years of nudging and cajoling from readers, I'm finally writing
a book. It'll be a big book. The working title is Liberal Fascism.
It's a two-part argument. In the first part, I plan to trace the authentic
intellectual and political history of fascism, starting from the reality
that Mussolini's fascism was conceived as an improvement upon socialism,
not a departure from it. Also I'll explore the liberals' longstanding
distortion of fascism's actual nature in order to delegitimize the Right.
In the second — and much larger — part, my plan is to discuss
how many aspects of modern Left-liberalism actually resemble aspects of
authentic fascism. Hopefully, I can do all of this in an engaging and
enjoyable way. Frankly, I think it will be a rip-roaring good time. The
book will be published by Doubleday, a division of Random House. There's
a lot more to it, but I have to keep some stuff under my belt and I have
a lot to learn as well.
I tell you all of
this because A) I'm very, very excited, B) I owe you guys, C) I want your
help — insights, suggested reading, etc. And, a little patience.
I very much want to do this book right. I know that will mean lots of
work on my end. I'll be keeping my obligations to NRO (i.e., you guys).
But I know, too, as Barbie said about math, that books are hard.
Finally, I will probably
be looking for a researcher and/or interns to help with the book and my
other commitments. I don't have all the logistics of how that will work
just yet. But, obviously, a researcher would have to be smart, hard-working,
knowledgeable, and open to the possibility that I would make fun of him
in The
Corner from time to time. If you're interested in that, keep it in
mind, but hold off on sending me e-mail for now. If you can't help yourself,
please send it to Gfilecorrections@aol.com
with the subject header "Intern for hire" or "Researcher."
