... his role in the creation of an important intellectual movement -- neoconservatism, of which he was said to be the godfather ...socialist during his youth and a liberal as a young man.......
Kristol’s influence was at the heart of the conservative political revival.. In this era, rather than being the “stupid party,” Republicans became the party of ideas. Neoconservatism’s task was, Kristol said, to “convert the Republican Party and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind conservative politics suitable to governing a modern democracy.”
....the triumphs of neoconservative thought had already altered the country’s political landscape...must be credited, along with his fellow neocon pioneer Norman Podhoretz, with creating a lively debate about ... the perils to Jewish interests and specifically to Israel ...
Neoconservatism continues to flourish in the formidable intellectual institutions that Irving Kristol helped build and the writers, thinkers and policy wonks deeply influenced by his thought and his example that labor in them... Full story
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