The Pros And Cons Of Extreme Relativism

Many neoconservatives were horrified at the extreme relativism that had grown in the 1960s. Simplistic ideas such as “it’s all right if it feels good” and “it just depends on your point of view” and “multiculturalism”-drove professors who had earlier tried to broaden their students’ views by stressing the relativity of all view points and cultures. Instead, students became vacuous rather than enlightened. In the Bush43 administration, highly placed neocons promoted war with Iraq both to protect the United states and to pull the Muslim world into democracy so that it would no longer spawn terrorism. Many old-fashioned republican conservatives, who dislike overseas crusades, despised the neocons, and they faded from power.
For the nationalist,