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Irving Kristol was one of the most influential writers, editors, and political commentators of the last half of the twentieth century. His obituaries credited him “with helping to transform the political landscape of the United States in the late 20th century” (The Telegraph of London) and “defin[ing] modern conservatism and . . . setting the stage for the Reagan presidency” (The New ...
RELATED LINKS [ Irving Kristol] From Memoirs of a Trotskyist by Irving Kristol. I was graduated from City College in the spring of 194O, and the honor I most prized was the fact that I was a ...
Dec 6, 1981 · Irving Kristol, Nathan Glazer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, James Q. Wilson, Seymour Martin Lipset, Roger Starr -these were the names that soon came to be identified with The Public Interest and its ...
Irving Kristol was born in New York in 1920, and lived a life so much in keeping with his ideas that he blended the two in his memoir, Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea. He was a man in harmony with himself — not in love with himself, which can lead to intellectual hubris, but at home with himself in the same way he was ...
Jan 27, 2011 · Irving Kristol renamed himself “William Ferry” (which, if I may add a detail, was an undergraduate in-joke aimed at one of American Trotskyism’s adult leaders, who, not being a college man ...
Mar 15, 1999 · The movement called neo-conservatism has provided the intellectual foundation for the resurgence of American conservatism in our time. And if neo-conservatism can be said to have a father or an architect, that person is Irving Kristol. Schooled in radical socialism in the 1930s, Kristol grew disillusioned with the left and rose to become an ...
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Sep 18, 2009 · Irving Kristol, writer, editor, and social philosopher, has died in Washington at the age of 89. His wisdom, wit, good humor, and generosity of spirit made him a friend and mentor to several ...
