Against the Neoconservatives: Neoconservatives and the Fear of Equality

One of the more perplexing aspects of neoconservatism is its apparent belief that America is in the grip of implacable egalitarianism. Nathan Glazer gloomily contemplates the “awesome potency” of “the revolution of equality … the most powerful social force in the modern world.” It “not only expresses a demand for equality in political rights and in political power; it also represents a demand for equality in economic power, in social status, in authority in every sphere… There is no point at which the equality revolution can come to an end.” Martin Diamond writes of “a vast inflation of the idea of equality, a conversion of the idea of equal political liberty into an ideology of equal...