Death of a neocon pioneer

Seymour Martin Lipset was one of the original neocons. He wrote widely on the nature of American society and was responsible for promoting the idea of American exceptionalism.

Part of the group of intellectuals at New York's City College who started out as leftists and became the left's strongest critics, Lipset never became a Republican. Still ,he was admired by many conservatives. One of them, Michael Barone, marks Lipset's death with this tribute.