Big Ideas

To me, one of the most sad/funny aspects of contemporary conservatism is that Newt Gingrich seems to count as some kind of towering intellectual figure. Garance Franke-Ruta reports that she saw him speaking at the Ames Straw Poll where he proclaimed that "Real change is going to require real change." And I suppose it will.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/08/big-ideas/45770/