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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 ...
Feb 1, 2024 · William Kristol was born on December 23, 1952, in New York City, New York, United States. He is of American nationality and Jewish American ethnicity. He belonged to a Jewish-American family. His father, Irving Kristol was an editor and publisher of Commentary magazine, and his mother, Gertrude Himmelfarb was a literature.
May 18, 2011 · Irving Kristol seems to have wanted his writing to have the effect of a good martini on a beleaguered corporate executive. The executive’s prejudices, widely scorned among the young and the ...
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 ...
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. . . .
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 ...
