Dear NR editor,
The recent uproar about the bonafides of neoconservatism make me wonder if perhaps this, along with other examples of conservative infighting could be a side-effect of a greater phenomenon; the blossoming of a fuller spectrum of conservatism as a result of the general ascendancy of conservative thinking in recent years. In earlier days, the movement was perhaps somewhat stunted, being embattled by its opposition and therefore forced to attenuate its own internal disputes in the interest of presenting a united front. A happy thought, don't you think?
Steven P. Sawyer