ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on neo-Jacobin ideology. Perhaps the most fundamental idea of the new Jacobinism is that the United States is an exceptional nation that was founded on universal principles and that all of mankind, heeding the American example, should adopt a single model of social and political life. The new Jacobin wants to replace traditional societies with "modern" societies modeled on what he takes to be universal principles. Neo-Jacobinism cannot be said entirely to dominate any major think-tank or institute in the United States, but it has more than a foothold in a number of them. These include the Claremont Institute and Hoover Institution on the West Coast and the American Enterprise Institute, the Institute on Religion and Public Life, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and Heritage Foundation on the East Coast. The states that neo-Jacobins want to attack or change typically pose little or no military threat to the United States or rest of the Western world.
