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Sep 19, 2009 · Irving Kristol, a forceful essayist, editor and university professor who became the leading architect of neoconservatism, which he called a political and intellectual movement for disaffected ex-liberals like himself who had been "mugged by reality," died Friday at the Capital Hospice in Arlington. He was 89.
Sep 19, 2009 · Irving Kristol, 1920-2009. This article is more than 10 years old. Among the popular myths surrounding neoconservatism is the notion that its intellectual father--the writer Irving Kristol, who ...
Sep 18, 2009 · Irving William Kristol was born on Jan. 20, 1920, in Brooklyn into a family of low-income, nonobservant Jews. His father, Joseph, a middleman in the men’s clothing business, went bankrupt ...
Sep 23, 2009 · This doesn’t mean Kristol, who died Sept. 18 at 89, wasn’t a neoconservative. Rather, it shows how much Kristol’s neoconservatism – the movement he invented, or at least successfully ...
Sep 19, 2009 · Irving Kristol, who died on Friday at the age of 89, was often called the godfather of neoconservatism. And so he was, along with Norman Podhoretz, who has actually done far more to set the ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Irving Kristol. An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence. Irving Kristol ( 22 January 1920 – 18 September 2009) was an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism ."
Irving Kristol, 1920 - 2009. Eventually, by the late 1960s and early 1970s, something that was to be called “neo-conservatism” came into being as a new category of political identity for persons like myself. . . . For me, “neo-conservatism” was an experience of moral, intellectual, and spiritual liberation. . . .
