Author and Conservative Intellectual

Marvin Olasky

3 articles 1996

Marvin Olasky is a journalist, author, and professor best known for his influential work on compassionate conservatism, particularly his book 'The Tragedy of American Compassion.' He served as editor-in-chief of World magazine for over two decades. His contributions to The Weekly Standard in 1996 focused on historical perspectives on American political campaigns and the Republican tradition.

ROOSEVELT REPUBLICANS

June 3, 1996 · Magazine, Marvin Olasky

SOME REPUBLICANS ARE ON A RENDEZVOUS with impotence. Not wanting to appear insufficiently progressive as the year 2000 approaches, they say they want what Bill Clinton wants, but in a way kinder and gentler to budget constraints. Like their me-too predecessors in the 60s and 70s, " conservatives"…

ROOSEVELT REPUBLICANS

June 3, 1996 · Magazine, Marvin Olasky

SOME REPUBLICANS ARE ON A RENDEZVOUS with impotence. Not wanting to appear insufficiently progressive as the year 2000 approaches, they say they want what Bill Clinton wants, but in a way kinder and gentler to budget constraints. Like their me-too predecessors in the 60s and 70s, " conservatives"…

A 19TH-CENTURY CAMPAIGN

April 1, 1996 · Magazine, Marvin Olasky

BOB DOLE EXASPERATES CONSERVATIVES. Caught in philosophical contradictions, condemned for inarticulateness, carped at for lack of personality, he is content to claim he is a doer, not a talker. And yet he wins our reluctant votes, and now we're all stuck with him.