Last week, “national conservatives” Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen, and Gladden Pappin published a guest essay in the New York Times titled “Hawks Are Standing in the Way of a New Republican Party.” I have read this article carefully and I would like to offer a few observations. But first, allow me to briefly articulate the argument laid out by the authors.
The Old—and Incoherent—Foreign Policy of the New Right
National conservatives make a case for restraint that is big on rhetoric and short on real-world ideas.




