While we're at it.

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, January, 2008

* In May 2006, James Piereson published a remarkable article in Commentary, "Lee Harvey Oswald and the Liberal Crack-Up." The article has now been expanded into a book, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution (Encounter). Briefly put, the argument is that the assassination of John E Kennedy and, more important, the interpretation of the assassination flipped the meaning of liberal and conservative in American public life. Piereson depicts the supreme confidence of liberals in a "Whig" or progressive understanding of history going back well before FDR's New Deal. And then November 22, 1963, happened. Led by Jacqueline Kennedy in her sorrow and anger, and eagerly assisted by Arthur Schlesinger, Theodore White, and other court intellectuals and journalists, JFK's brief...

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