Countering establishments
Gideon Rose, managing editor of Foreign Affairs, is back this week guest blogging for The Economist’s Democracy in America blog. In announcing his return, the paper recalls quite the stir he caused in the blogosphere when he equated the netroots to neocons.
This spawned quite a debacle, especially among liberal bloggers who claimed that too few scholars in the foreign policy community had spoken out against the Iraq war. Atrios at Eschaton and Glenn Greenwald at Salon started things off; like-minded commentators like Matthew Yglesias jumped in the mix, and a few back-and-forths with the editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, Gideon Rose followed. The bloggers’ point: careerism motivates the foreign policy community, and therefore its members are “politicians rather than scholars or analysts.” Rose didn’t take too kindly to that.
Thus far, he’s been reading Arthur Schlesinger’s recently published journals. I’m eager to see what he has in store for us this week.