Weekly Standard Contributor

Robert Turner

1 article 2001

Robert Turner contributed to The Weekly Standard, writing at least one essay for the magazine in 2001. His work reflected on political or ideological misjudgments, drawing on literary allusion in its commentary.

Bliss it was in that dawn to be wrong . . .

December 3, 2001 · Features, Magazine

THE RUBBLE from the World Trade Center was still burning when the first so-called peace protesters took to the streets more than two months ago. Anxious to emulate the powerful coalition that pressured the United States to abandon Indochina three decades earlier, they would have us believe that our…