See my post #8, above. Kristol, out of his own article was an admirer of Leon Trotsky in his student days, during the New Deal. Leon Trotsky was the Bolshevik butcher--head of the Red Army in the Revolution. That is quite a bit further Left than a "New Deal Democrat."
William Flax
I didn’t know that, thanks. This is why many called Hitchens a neo-con for supporting the Iraq war-he too, was a supporter of Trotsky. Either way, these “intellectuals” are far too left wing for my tastes.