{"id":413,"date":"2004-01-15T23:37:38","date_gmt":"2004-01-16T06:37:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-01-15T23:37:38","modified_gmt":"2004-01-16T06:37:38","slug":"bill-evers-goes-neocon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/15\/bill-evers-goes-neocon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Evers Goes Neocon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s funny, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P406_0_1_0\">Bill Evers<\/a> used to be one of those libertarians who went around giving everyone else a purity test, and he often found them wanting. Back in the good old days, he used to write a column for <i>Libertarian Vanguard<\/i>, the newspaper of the Radical Caucus, called \u201cBrickbats and Bouquets,\u201d in which he handed out kudos and judo chops to those that, in his view, deserved them. The ideologially pure were praised, and the deviationists were denounced in no uncertain terms. How fitting that he \u2013 the self-appointed enforcer of libertarian political correctness turned apostate, who makes Judas Iscariot look like Horatio at the bridge &#8212; should now be the recipient of one of the biggest brickbats of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but don\u2019t hold it against him. I, for one, am glad to see that Bill has finally settled down and <a href=\"http:\/\/fairuse.1accesshost.com\/news1\/evers.html\">found himself a decent job.<\/a> After all, how long can you pretend to be a grad student \u2013 at the age of fifty-something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s funny, but Bill Evers used to be one of those libertarians who went around giving everyone else a purity test, and he often found them wanting. Back in the good old days, he used to write a column for Libertarian Vanguard, the newspaper of the Radical Caucus, called \u201cBrickbats and Bouquets,\u201d in which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}