Kristol, in his youth, was a committed Trotskyist, subscribing to the revolutionary vision of global revolution. He was deeply involved in the leader’s Fourth International, a Marxist organization ...

It was Podhoretz, however, who gave neoconservatism its most explicitly Jewish cast. The August 1968 issue of Commentary featured Emil Fackenheim’s famous essay, “Jewish Faith and the Holocaust: A ...

Asked to weigh in on co-keynoting a conference with national security adviser John Bolton, Tucker Carlson demurred, saying different perspectives should be heard. Bolton was similarly deferential ...

Charles Krauthammer, not content with having been proven deadly wrong in his worldview of many years, learning nothing from the bloody disasters of the policies he so aggressively promoted, now ...

This continuity begins with a sense of “neoconservatism” as a doctrine offering comprehensive policy guidance to which all “neoconservatives” adhere. The next element is the imputation to ...

Neoconservatism’s roots are being pulled up by the likes of Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. It’s a curious viewpoint. One of Brooks’s earliest columns for The Times argued that anyone who even used the term ...

FOR LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE CRITICS of the Bush administration, it is an article of faith that neoconservatives have hijacked American foreign policy. The neocons accomplished this, the theory goes, ...

Shadi Hamid was my foil on a 2021 panel at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. I presented a paper arguing that the U.S. was supporting a rogue's gallery of expansionist states in the ...

Well, no, maybe that wasn’t quite the point of Fukuyama’s After the Neocons. So says our friend Douglas Murray, the author of Neoconservatism: why we need it: Fukuyama’s main point in this book is ...

You will remember the Obama campaign of 2008. His was a fresh and pleasingly multicultural face and his candidacy, although unexamined by an incurious national media, took pains to present a foreign ...

The influential neoconservative movement is a complex and often surprising thing in this incisive historical study. Brookings Institution senior fellow Vaïsse subdivides the movement's dramatic ...