[JohnGalt]

FDR governed as a fascist and was smitten with the worst tyrant of the 20th Century. The neoconservatives are trying to rehabilitate FDR's image and finally felt bold enough to launch their defense, I guess.

BTW, Richard Perle works for Hollinger Papers which is owned by Conrad Black.

[headsonpikes]

FDR governed as a fascist...

I would argue that he had lttle political choice. As Lord Conrad points out, there were numerous populist and 3rd party movements who were far more lunatic than the New Dealers. Not only Russians and Germans were infatuated with 'modernism' and 'progressivism'.

There were scarcely a handful of prominent Americans by the mid-30s who were fully, and vocally, in favor of the classical liberal principles which had governed the U.S. intellectually since its inception.

Now, there is a revival of interest in America's founding ideas, which we can only hope reaches critical mass before an over-reaching State closes off all escape from some form of national socialism.

[Eva]

Some Newsweek writer has a new book on FDR coming out this week.