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Repeal of the Constitution?

The New Republicanism is probably not the fruit of Dwight Eisenhower’s meditations on political theory, Arthur Larson’s broad hints in A Republican Looks at His Party to the contrary notwithstanding. More likely it is a series of common denominators that Mr. Larson detected as present in the various aspects of the Eisenhower program when he set out to write an apologia for it. Whatever the ism’s genesis, the important thing is that Mr. Larson managed to present the Eisenhower program in propositional form and that the result has been accepted by the controlling faction of the Republican Party as its political credo. It’s about time, then, that we take Arthur Larson seriously, and take a careful look at the New Republicanism as the new Republicans look at it, i.e., as a political philosophy.

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L. Brent Bozell Jr.

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Repeal of the Constitution?

The New Republicanism is probably not the fruit of Dwight Eisenhower’s meditations on political theory, Arthur Larson’s broad hints in A Republican Looks at His Party to the contrary notwithstanding. More likely it is a series of common denominators that Mr. Larson detected as present in the various aspects of the Eisenhower program when he set out to write an apologia for it. Whatever the ism’s genesis, the important thing is that Mr. Larson managed to present the Eisenhower program in propositional form and that the result has been accepted by the controlling faction of the Republican Party as its political credo. It’s about time, then, that we take Arthur Larson seriously, and take a careful look at the New Republicanism as the new Republicans look at it, i.e., as a political philosophy.