This is weird. I wanted to comment on Matt Yglesias as follows below. I typed www.bloger.com not www.blogger.com. I wondered if my computer had learned to read my mind.

My comment
"lots of second- and third-generation neos who are the intellectual descendents of people who made the transition from liberalism"

Two, at least, are biological descendents too. Many suprising things have happened to the first generation neos since they dined in alcove B (Trotskyite) of the CUNY caffeteria, but could they ever have imagined that they would bring back the hereditary principal by begetting or bearing a neoconservative ruling class ?