https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/12/12/inscrutable-and-vague-so-hard-to-pin-down/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 02:29:12 -0400<![CDATA[Sorry, I can’t get to excited, pro or con, about Pete Townshend saying as he did last week on Good Morning America, “I’m a bit of a neocon.” First, he’s likely to walk it back if pressed, and second, as with Tina Brown in 2003, and her hilariously ahistoric reference to the “neocons of the &#8217;30s,”  does he even know the lineage of the word and what it means? (As Jonah Goldberg wrote in 2003 as neocon was beginning its ascension as the post-9/11 epithet of choice among the left:]]>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:12:53 -0500<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2012/12/12/inscrutable-and-vague-so-hard-to-pin-down-n256221