--- title: "4 Right-wing-politics Quotes by 2 authors" description: "Browse 4 Right-wing-politics quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Right-wing-politics sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e6/christopher-hitchens-117_age-life_and-i-wonder-therefore-how-james-atlas-c_943547.jpg" --- > [“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/and-i-wonder-therefore-how-james-atlas-can-have-been-so-indulgent-in/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e6/christopher-hitchens-117_age-life_and-i-wonder-therefore-how-james-atlas-c_943547.jpg) > [“He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are naïve enough to confuse this with anti-imperialism that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/he-is-in-many-ways-quite-a-right-wing-isolationist-it-s-because-some/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96c/christopher-hitchens-117_anti-imperialism_he-is-in-many-ways-quite-a-right-wing-is_1011479.jpg) > [“Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/vous-travaillez-pour-l-armee-madame-you-are-working-for-the-army-a/) [Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/411/adrienne-rich-803_army_vous-travaillez-pour-l-armee-madame-you_1028761.png) > [“I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-have-been-taunted-on-various-platforms-recently-for-becoming-a-neo/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3f/christopher-hitchens-117_antisemitism_i-have-been-taunted-on-various-platforms_2239968.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/right-wing-politics/#itemlist", "name": "Right-wing-politics Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York Intellectuals.’ This rather shallow piece appeared in the New York Times magazine, and took us over the usual jumps. Gone are the days of Partisan Review , Delmore Schwartz, Dwight MacDonald etc etc. No longer the tempest of debate over Trotsky, The Waste Land , Orwell, blah, blah. Today the assimilation of the Jewish American, the rise of rents in midtown Manhattan, the erosion of Village life, yawn, yawn. The drift to the right, the rediscovery of patriotism, the gruesome maturity of the once iconoclastic Norman Podhoretz, okay, okay ! I have one question which Atlas in his much-ballyhooed article did not even discuss. The old gang may have had regrettable flirtations. Their political compromises, endlessly reviewed, may have exhibited naivety or self-regard. But much of that record is still educative, and the argument did take place under real pressure from anti-semitic and authoritarian enemies. Today, the alleged ‘neo-conservative’ movement around Jeane Kirkpatrick, Commentary and the New Criterion can be found in unforced alliance with openly obscurantist, fundamentalist and above all anti-intellectual forces. In the old days, there would at least have been a debate on the proprieties of such a united front, with many fine distinctions made and brave attitudes struck. As I write, nearness to power seems the only excuse, and the subject is changed as soon it is raised. I wait for the agonised, self-justifying neo-conservative essay about necessary and contingent alliances. 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