NEO-CONS VERSUS MARK LEVIN

In the neo-con rag Weekly Standard, Peter Berkowitz wrote a devastating review of Foamer Levin's latest eruption, Liberty and Tyranny. From Berkowitz:

Levin has written a book that combines vehemence and vituperation...like Goldwater, Levin greatly understates the conflict between liberty and tradition: Freedom encourages impatience with (and skepticism of) inherited authority and custom; tradition generates impatience with (and skepticism of) innovation, novelty, and diversity.

His failure to address that conflict prevents Levin from giving moderation its due.

Levin responds in the American Thinker and I found these lines telling:

For the neo-Statist (or neo-Conservative), the problem is particularly acute when applied to international relations for he usually promotes a hawkish and interventionist foreign policy.

I assume Bill Kristol is not happy with my brief mention of him in the book as a neo-Statist.