Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Neoconservative

It's odd enough that some have taken to using the word "neoconservative" to describe Justices Scalia and Thomas. Now "neoconservative" is being used to describe Joseph Ratzinger, the newly-elected Pope Benedict XVI. (See here and here; E.J. Dionne flirts with the term here.) How utterly bizarre. It would be as if newspapers, for no apparent reason, started referring to James Dobson as a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.

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