Tag: James Q. Wilson

Yesterday I had mostly good things to say about the late John Q. Wilson; today, mostly not so good, taking off from his May 22, 1995 review of Alan Brinkley’s The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War in the New Republic (subscription only). Confronting FDR, the liberal god himself, Wilson doesn’t…

James Q. Wilson, paired perhaps too conveniently in death with the rowdy Andrew Breitbart, was hailed as one of the best, or at least one of the most tolerable, of the neo-conservatives, no doubt because he was careful to avoid foreign policy. The “necessary” war in Iraq, and now the even more necessary war in…