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... Full Article at The Left Coaster

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... Full Article at The Corner

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... Full Article at Blogger News

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. Full Article at Thought Leader

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. Full Article at Matthew Yglesias

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. Full Article at The American | American Enterprise Institute

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

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

Irving Kristol, who died last month at age 89, inspired some highly mixed feelings in me. On the positive side, this renowned public intellectual was possessed of political realism, a firm anti-utopian grasp of the possible. Like Thomas Sowell and P.J. Full Article at Town Hall

"I think Irving [Kristol] himself was a realist and cautious on these matters, in the style of Walter Lippmann, whom he admired. Full Article at Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish

Nathan Glazer has an article about Irvin Kristol in TNR that, on its second page, makes the interesting argument that Kristol, despite being the “grandfather of neoconservatism,” didn’t actually hold the beliefs about national security policy that we... Full Article at Matthew Yglesias

The obituaries got most of the facts right: that Irving Kristol’s death at the age of 89 marked the passing of one of the most important public intellectuals of the past 40 years; that he began his political life on the radical Left, with a brief stint... Full Article at Commentary

When Irving Kristol joined the new magazine Commentary, he distinguished himself from the other editors--Clement Greenberg, part-time then, Robert Warshow, and me. Full Article at The New Republic

This feature lets you search our site for stories with related terms. Just click on one of the related terms atop a news story and you'll get a page listing all the stories featuring that term. See something amiss? Full Article at San Diego Union-Tribune

Chaos and civilisation are never far apart. For this reason, we need to confront the forces of chaos wherever and in whatever form they appear. Full Article at Standpoint

In 1987, a friend invited me to hear Noam Chomsky speak at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. After a student activist introduced him as a radical, Chomsky took the microphone and said, Im not a radicalIm a conservative. Full Article at City Journal

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling," Oscar Wilde once remarked. Irving Kristol took Wilde’s observation and ran with it. "The amateur’s feelings are sincere enough — why else should he be writing poetry? Full Article at Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling," Oscar Wilde once remarked. Irving Kristol took Wilde's observation and ran with it. "The amateur's feelings are sincere enough -- why else should he be writing poetry? Full Article at Town Hall

‘All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling,” Oscar Wilde once remarked. Irving Kristol took Wilde’s observation and ran with it. “The amateur’s feelings are sincere enough why else should he be writing poetry? Full Article at National Review Online