In Genesis and Ezekiel Gog and Magog are forces of the Apocalypse who are prophesied to come out of the north and destroy Israel unless stopped. The Book of Revelation took up the Old Testament prophesy: And when the thousand years are expired, Satan sha

Income inequality is accelerating fastest at the top. Who are the 0.1%? "If a $100,000-a-year household thinks itself to be middle class," the neoconservative writer Irving Kristol once wrote, "then it is middle class." This sentiment is widely held, but

By Joe Palazzolo Irving Kristol once described a neoconservative as “a liberal who has been mugged by reality,” which is often simplified to, “A conservative is a liberal who was mugged.” Liberals, pray Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is an exceptio

The kerfuffle over Newt Gingrich’s status as a Reagan Republican will be a footnote to the 2012 campaign at most. But that does not mean we cannot learn from it. On the surface, this is a silly issue. Last week, Mitt Romney was painting Gingrich as a min

From the Gingrich special order in question: The fact is that George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Irving Kristol, and Jeane Kirkpatrick are right in pointing out the enormous gap between President Reagan's strong rhetoric, which is adequate, and his admini

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Rush Limbaugh kicked off his show today by reading from Jeffrey Lord’s piece accusing Elliott Abrams of quoting Newt Gingrich out of context. Lord’s post at the American Spectator blog is a response to Abrams’ piece here at NRO. By all means go read both

Writing in the American Spectator, Abrams, Lord says, has “been swept up in the GOP Establishment’s Romney frothings over the rise of Newt Gingrich in the Republican primaries.” But no more, he says, because Abrams has been “caught red-handed in lending

It was magical. We talked and laughed and skied our hearts out. Even though I was deathly ill, we had the time of our lives, and we resolved to move the venue to Alta, Utah, and make it an annual event. It started in 1978. Milton Friedman had retired fro

Source: http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes Editor's Note: Andrew G. Berg and Jonathan D. Ostry are, respectively, ASsistant Director and Deputy Director in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. The views expressed

From a 1980 essay by Irving Kristol, "Some Personal Reflections on Economic Well-Being and Income Distribution": The prominence of the issue of equality, I should say, reflects the degree to which egalitarian, quasi-socialist conceptions of justice have

He mentions as examples of conservatives constituting the "tradition" (drawing on another professor's reading list) the following: "Burke, Maistre, Hayek, Buckley, Ayn Rand, Irving Kris

Since John wrote his post below, Mark Lilla has come out with a lengthy attempted rebuttal of Corey Robin’s argument. Even as New York Review of Books articles by creaky centrist-liberals go, it’s a terrible essay – see further Alex Gourevitch. Even as

My second annual roll callJewish Ideas Daily this morning. Not to leave you in any suspense, I think the posthumous selection of Irving Kristol’s essays published in February as The Neoconservative Persuasion was the most distinguished Jewish title of 20

Paul? Mainstream?? I…uh…LOLOLOLOL…ROTFLMAOOOOOO…LOLOLOL…OMG… He should wear a tin hat and retire to his little Texas town. He is dangerous and out of touch with reality. One more great interview with Dr. Paul If you saw Paul on Fox News Sunday this morni

As 2011 comes to a close, FrumForum plans to re-run some of our best featured pieces from the year. In ‘Two Cheers for the Welfare State’ David Frum responded to Yuval Levin’s essay in National Affairs about America’s welfare state. The piece is interest

I imagine this job looks easy from the outside. I just find some wingnut saying something stupid, boot up the automatic witty retort software and hit stop when it hits 3 million words or so (and you thought verbosity like this was organic). So as a speci

Imagine what the SWAT raid on that is going to look like! Irving Kristol: " A liberal is one who says that it's all right for an 18-year-old girl to perform in a porn

[A Dangerous Place • By Daniel P. Moynihan • Little Brown, 1978 • 297 pages. This review originally appeared as "Bill & Irving & Ken & Patrick" in Inquiry, Vol. 2, No. 4 (February 5, 1979), pp. 21–23.] Once upon a time in America, there was a left and a