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Mar 29, 2024 · Irving Kristol led a fascinating and accomplished life. 14 Born in New York City in 1920 to first-generation eastern European Jewish immigrants, Joseph and Bessie Kristol, he was raised, alongside his sister Lilian, in a modest Brooklyn apartment. This environment would shape his later conceptions of poverty and welfare, while his experience of anti-Semitic discrimination – in particular the ...
Sep 21, 2009 · On only one point, finally, is Kristol consistent: he is always class-conscious. The younger, radical Irving Kristol whom he has autobiographically described in a recent New York Times Magazine ...
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 ...
Apr 15, 2009 · Kristol converts to supply-side economics, turns against governmental reform altogether, and forgets the lessons of his close friend and colleague Daniel Bell’s great book “The Cultural ...
Buckley had a television program, a long-running one, Kristol a column in the Wall Street Journal. Buckley attacked the premises of modern liberalism while Kristol exposed its destructive consequences. They pursued a common goal, to keep America strong and vital, but sought to arrive there through widely divergent paths.
Sep 19, 2009 · Irving Kristol, the writer, editor and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the ...
The age of Obama and Iran and Alzheimer's disease and Paris Hilton surely has many problems that we could better understand and ameliorate if Irving Kristol were still writing essays, founding magazines, and counseling politicians. Of course, much has changed since the 1960s and '70s, when Kristol was most prolific and most influential.
