In the 1970s, the "neocon" movement defined itself by its relentless opposition to the Soviet Gulags. While Soviet leaders tried keep their oppressive prison camps secret, neocons championed the exposes of former prisoners like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Not any more.

Now neocons are running their own Gulags, scattered across the planet from Guantanamo, Cuba to Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. And in the middle of the American Gulag are former Soviet Gulags!

Mary McCarthy had the moral courage to expose the secret American Gulags. Are today's neocons applauding her heroism, as they did Solzhenitsyn's? No, they are viciously accusing her of Treason.

Contemporary conservatism is beyond bankrupt. Rather, it has become what it once despised: totalitarianism.