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A Magazine of American Culture
February 22, 2018
Who should jump out of the woodwork to tell us that "abolitionist sentiment, however understandable and defensible, will be ineffectual" but Mr. Joyce's mentor, Irving Kristol, the ubiquitous godfather of the neoconservatives, and it was Kristol's contribution to the Kulturkampf to suggest that all we reallyÃÂ ...
The Week Magazine
February 13, 2018
With its echo of arguments that Irving Kristol famously advanced against obscenity in the early 1970s and references to the brief tactical alliance during the 1990s between social conservatives and such anti-porn feminists as Catherine McKinnon and Andrea Dworkin, Douthat's column is very much aÃÂ ...
Rasmussen Reports
February 2, 2018
Back in the 1990s, I wrote an article for Irving Kristol's The Public Interest in which I divided parties that had emerged over the 150 years of electoral democracies in various countries into four types -- religious, liberal (classical free market liberal, that is), socialist and nationalist. The Bush Republican PartyÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
February 2, 2018
In 1995, he co-founded The Weekly Standard, which became an institutional home for his strain of neoconservatism, the system of beliefs that his father, the famed intellectual Irving Kristol, had originally helped to assemble and which had its greatest influence in the prelude to the Iraq War. For a generationÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
January 31, 2018
The great neoconservative intellectual Irving Kristol wrote in the 1980s, “Patriotism springs from love of the nation's past; nationalism arises out of hope for the nation's future, distinctive greatness. Nationalism in our time is probably the most powerful of political emotions.” There is no doubt about the powerÃÂ ...
Splice Today
January 30, 2018
Kristol's father Irving Kristol, known as “the godfather of neoconservatism,” was a New York intellectual and the author of several penetrating books, including Two Cheers for Capitalism and Neoconservatism: the Autobiography of an Idea. In 1965, Kristol Sr. founded the journal The Public Interest, the locusÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
January 28, 2018
Cooper believes this project was inseparable from that of contemporary social conservatives, starting with the former liberals — like Moynihan, Irving Kristol, and Daniel Bell — who came out as neoconservatives in response to the New Left. The neoconservatives, she argues, were firm believers in theÃÂ ...
messenger-inquirer
January 26, 2018
The National Interest, co-founded in 1985 by the late Irving Kristol, father of Bill, remains devoted to foreign-policy realism, offering thoughtful articles on what role the United States should play on a changed world stage. Its editor, Jacob Heilbrunn, told me that the age of Trump, in whom he always sawÃÂ ...
The American Conservative
January 15, 2018
The foundation has a rich history cleaved to neoconservative pioneers such as Irving Kristol, father of Bill, who in his own memoirs credits the philanthropic institution and its then-director Randall Richardson (heir to the Vicks fortune) with helping him jumpstart the Public Interest, known as the premierÃÂ ...
Patheos (blog)
January 11, 2018
Neoconservatavism: Irving Kristol's definition conveys its original essence: “A neoconservative,” he said, “is a liberal who has been mugged by reality?” (7). [Think also Norman Podhoretz] “The stresses that produced this transition were many. In part, neoconservatism may be interpreted as the recognitionÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
January 4, 2018
Irving Kristol, among the most influential conservative intellectuals of the 20th century, declared in 1972 that, “I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.” Kristol's journal, TheÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 31, 2017
“When we met, Professor Yosal Rogat was living west of the Stanford campus in a modest house and had the reputation, even at a top university, of being exceptionally brilliant as well as far-ranging. [As a grad student] I signed up for his seminar on 'modernisms,' a style that he found in social thoughtÃÂ ...
Eurasia Review
December 31, 1999
Irving Kristol once famously claimed he never read F. A. Hayek and he also only gave two cheers for capitalism (rather than three). Former socialists like Kristol and Daniel Bell all attempted to resurrect a bourgeois ethic that saw virtue in saving, moderation, and the deferral of gratification, not the rampantÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy Journal (blog)
December 31, 1999
The only purpose of the Mueller “investigation” is to plant in the public's mind that Trump and Putin conspired to steal the presidential election from Hillary, despite the total lack of evidence. In the 1970s neoconservative Irving Kristol aptly described the Republicans as “the stupid party.” We are seeing thisÃÂ ...
lareviewofbooks
December 31, 1999
Others — from the trust-busting Roosevelt, to Irving Kristol and his “conservative welfare state,” to the paleoconservatives railing against transnational corporations — have not hesitated to call on government to use its power toward conservative ends. A reminder of this history is useful our present moment.
First Things
November 23, 2017
In a recent column, Matthew Continetti quoted Irving Kristol on the decline of bourgeois citizenship. The quote is worth reproducing at length:.
Burlington Times News
November 18, 2017
One of the most prominent, Irving Kristol, famously defined a neoconservative as “a liberal who has been mugged by reality” and a neoliberal ...
CNN
November 16, 2017
This isn't to say conservatives aren't still nestled within the media. In conservatism's intellectual heyday in the 1950s, voices like Irving Kristol, ...
Hartford Courant
November 4, 2017
In a speech receiving the Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise Institute, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
November 3, 2017
Economist/columnist Paul Krugman, in a July 31 op-ed in the New York Times, quoted Irving Kristol, the godfather of neo-conservatism.
The American Conservative
October 29, 2017
The Democrats have moved to the left since then, and the intellectual heirs of Irving Kristol, such as one finds in National Affairs, have been ...
Ricochet.com
October 27, 2017
The Irving Kristol Award is the highest honor conferred by the American Enterprise Institute. AEI gives the award annually to an individual who ...
News & Observer
October 25, 2017
Some 40 years ago, I reviewed an important book by Irving Kristol, then a prominent leader of the “neo-conservative” movement. Like many of ...
Jewish Chronicle
October 25, 2017
AEI's Irving Kristol Award is given annually to individuals who have made exceptional practical and intellectual contributions to improve ...
New York Magazine
October 24, 2017
Sykes: Not sure about Irving Kristol. But Buckley was caught up in Cold War anti-Communist politics. I think his attack on the Birch Society was ...
New Republic
December 31, 1999
Otherwise, the drive to anoint a William F. Buckley or an Irving Kristol some lost avatar of sensible intellectualism is a pathological one and it ...
CapitalGazette.com
December 31, 1999
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, receiving the Irving Kristol Award at the American Enterprise Institute, said that we Americans have a social ...
Monroe News Star (blog)
September 23, 2017
This is obvious and obviously true, but as Irving Kristol once said, "When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing soÃÂ ...
MarketWatch
September 21, 2017
There's a reason neoconservative pioneer Irving Kristol entitled his best-known book “Two Cheers for Capitalism”: even devoted disciples knewÃÂ ...
The American Prospect
September 20, 2017
For example, Irving Kristol and Michael Novak gave public lectures at Youngstown State University, both insisting that the Mahoning ValleyÃÂ ...
The Michigan Review
September 11, 2017
Among them are: Gerald R. Ford; Russell Kirk, famed conservative intellectual; Peter Fletcher, former Republican National Committeeman; Irving Kristol,ÃÂ ...
The American Conservative
September 7, 2017
... and they show a scholar whose views easily melded with those shared by Nathan Glazer, James Q. Wilson, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz,ÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
September 5, 2017
Single-speaker events speeches are usually reserved for important annual occasions, like the presentation of the Irving Kristol Award dinnersÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 1, 2017
“Irving Kristol says that a neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality,” Mr. Cromartie told Patheos, an online religionÃÂ ...
smallwarsjournal (blog)
August 22, 2017
It was founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol and until 2001 was edited by Anglo-Australian Owen Harries. The National Interest is not restricted inÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
August 21, 2017
... from conservative thinkers, including James Q. Wilson, Thomas Sowell, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Edward Banfield, and especially Irving Kristol.
HuffPost
August 19, 2017
Working on that neoconservative journal in the 1980s under Irving Kristol, whose Two Cheers for Capitalism is a sophisticated apologia forÃÂ ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
August 13, 2017
Irving [Kristol] was a conservative Republican and wrote a regular column for The Wall Street Journal. Pat Moynihan was liberal because of aÃÂ ...
AlterNet
August 2, 2017
It all started back in 1970, Krugman continues, when Irving Kristol, a political commentator and the "godfather of neoconservatism," endorsedÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
July 18, 2017
As Irving Howe said of Irving Kristol: may he have a long life, and many many defeats. Back to the Trump/Carter comparison: since I first made itÃÂ ...
Forward
July 13, 2017
The most prominent Jewish intellectuals who joined the conservative movement in the 1970s — Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz — did soÃÂ ...
Bucks County Courier Times
July 9, 2017
Irving Kristol, one of the founders of neoconservativism, fused the ideas of patriotism with nationalism. "Patriotism springs from love of theÃÂ ...
Bangor Daily News
December 31, 1999
“Irving Kristol says that a neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. That was quite literally true for me,” he told the religionÃÂ ...
The Nation.
December 31, 1999
As Irving Kristol, the late “godfather” of neoconservatism and father to William, explained back in 1993, while he had professed to be motivatedÃÂ ...
CNN
December 31, 1999
But as writer and editor Irving Kristol once noted, foundations (and the ultra-wealthy who create them) are often tempted by "the sin of pride":ÃÂ ...
The National Memo (blog)
December 31, 1999
It all started back in 1970, Krugman continues, when Irving Kristol, a political commentator and the “godfather of neoconservatism,” endorsedÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
A key moment came in the 1970s, when Irving Kristol, the godfather of neoconservatism, embraced supply-side economics — the claim, refutedÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 17, 2017
The Trillings brought Mr. Podhoretz into the world of New York intellectuals: Daniel Bell, Irving Howe, Kazin, Murray Kempton, Irving Kristol, Mary McCarthy and Delmore Schwartz, among others. They were largely Jewish, Marxist, steeled in marathonÃÂ ...
Business Standard
March 16, 2017
These events, and the Cold War mission in India, were never far from the minds of Encounter's editors. "Irving Kristol, the first American coeditor of Encounter, suggests in his [memoir] the less than spontaneous nature of that magazine's Indian ...
LobeLog
March 14, 2017
This is turn was driven largely by the greatly increased influence of evangelicals and their mostly Christian Zionist leadership whose theology, as noted (euphemistically) by Irving Kristol in 1984, was pro-Israel but "not exactly pro-Jewish." The ...
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