Jim Henley Denounces Goldwaterism-Heinleinism
Small government at home and militarism abroad: that trick never works!
Cold Fusion § Unqualified Offerings: Brian Doherty celebrates the Heinlein Centennial, talks about the books and Heinlein-Goldwater Fusionism:
Goldwater’s appeal had two things in common with Heinlein’s: an individualist sense that Americans were being overmanaged and overpampered by an out-of-control federal government, and a belief that those rotten commies needed to get it, good and hard.
The problem with the H-G fusion of militarism and limited government is that the former always ends up eating the latter. Which is why I kept trying to warn Andrew Sullivan (and others) about “split-screen Republicanism” years before he was ready to listen...
