I’ve been pretty hard on Kinsley at times, but I think he makes a perfectly valid point about the elasticity of the neocon label. Then again, it’s something I’ve been complaining about for a very long time. He wants to use it — as his wont — to charge (neo)conservatives with hypocrisy. But the more salient point is that neoconservatism isn’t an “ism” in the way he describes it.