Irving Kristol News on Daylife

Open Thread

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:01:14 GMT

Charlie Peters, the founder of the Washington Monthly (home of Steve Benen's Political Animal) opined in the last issue that both he and Irving Kristol believed that there were problems with liberalism, but Kristol founded the neo-conservatives, while...
Source: The Left Coaster

Irving Kristol's Philanthropy -- By: Yuval Levin

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:48:49 GMT

On December 15, the Hudson Institute in Washington will host a panel discussion of a very important but under-examined element of the contribution the late Irving Kristol made to American life: his involvement in shaping and guiding private...
Source: The Corner

Leftist psychologists prove that a conservative is someone who has been mugged by reality

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:02:22 GMT

It was of course Irving Kristol who first said that a neoconservative is someone who has been mugged by reality and it was some NYC police chief decades back who said that “A conservative is a liberal who got mugged last night” So it comes as no...
Source: Blogger News

Kaalgat pseudo-liberalism and the Polanski affair

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:40:59 GMT

The late Irving Kristol once defined a liberal as someone who, upon witnessing a fourteen-year-old girl engaging in a live sex act, worries about whether she is getting the minimum wage.
Source: Thought Leader

Kaplan: Civil Society Requires Perpetual War

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:27:45 GMT

Wow, MY — I often disagree, even dislike, things you write, but this is an absolute first-rate, must-read post, IMO. Wait… Irving Kristol thought sex was boring? Is this common among conservatives? If so, it would explain a great many things.
Source: Matthew Yglesias

The End of Giving Till It Hurts

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:52:03 GMT

People who worked in philanthropy increasingly espoused the opinions and values of a ‘new class,’ well-educated and brimming with big ideas, but out-of-touch with how American society really worked, Kristol wrote.
Source: The American | American Enterprise Institute

Irving Kristol: recollections, Norman Birnbaum

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:57:31 GMT

It is puzzling that obituary notices of Irving Kristol obviously intended to be positive designate him the "Godfather" of neo-conservatism.
Source: openDemocracy

Was Irving Kristol a Neocon?

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:03:27 GMT

Irving Kristol Dies: How Will the Neocon Church Now Divide? tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 9/19/2009 — Irving Kristol has died at 89.
Source: Beltway Blips

Quoted in 'Irving Kristol: The 'Universal Resource' -- By: Tevi Troy'

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:18:24 GMT

said in The Corner:

from Irving Kristol that you are in charge of moving intellectual ideas into the White House. I have lots of them. Should we get together?

Quoted in 'Irving Kristol, godfather of neoconservatism, dies'

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:39:47 GMT

Norman Podhoretz said in WRAL:

The influence of Irving Kristol's ideas has been one of the most important factors in reshaping the American climate of opinion over the past 40 years

Photo from AP Photo

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:31:09 GMT

This undated photo provided by The Weekly Standard shows Irving Kristol, who died Friday, September 18, 2009. He Was 89.

Why Bill Kristol thinks Ron Paul is a "Crackpot"

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:29:23 GMT