Empire Builders
The Christian Science Monitor has put together a fantastic interactive resource of information about neoconservatism. They have a background/primer section called Neocon 101 , and a quiz so you can find out if you're a neocon. There is also an index of neocon institutions and publications. Hopefully, we are about to see more of this kind of site. The web and hyperlinks make a great medium for explaining a topic with so many tangents and relevant personalities.
Already, there have been several attempts by individuals to build a sort of central clearinghouse of information on neoconservatism, though before most of them were focused on the Project for the New American Century:
PNAC.info
PNAC Revealed
and I made one, too... PNAC Primer
But the CSM's site, while it may match these other amateur sites in terms of its goal and purpose, emboldens this inquiry in two key ways. Initially, the fact that the CSM is a respected periodical--especially as regards international matters--and it lends some credibility to what was too easilly dismissed as "conspiracy theory" before. It was all too easy to dismiss questions about neoconservatives by pretending the term itself had no meaning. More importantly, though, the Empire Builders site--created in an environment now tempered by Irving Kristol's recent neocon coming out--moves the discourse forward and away from criticism of one think thank and one group of individuals and towards a sort of public vetting of an ideology.
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