Does that mean, though, that neoconservatism is no longer useful as a label? Well, neoconservatism is, indeed, an impulse, current, or persuasion. It still exists now, as it did then, though it has of ...

For all his eminence—or maybe because of it—the funeral for Irving Kristol this past September was an understated affair. Some thought Dick Cheney might show up, but neither he nor any other ...

Here, Kristol articulates the foreign policy vision—“Democratic Realism” is what Charles Krauthammer calls it—for which neoconservatism is known. Yet to Kristol’s great credit, he readily concedes ...

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 ...

Elliott Abrams unsurprisingly gives a completely self-serving and misleading definition of neoconservatism: Now we are getting closer. Omit the negative value judgments in some of these definitions ...

Irving Kristol, "the godfather of neoconservatism," offered a concise and somewhat myopic view of the intellectual contributions of neoconservatives to the broader conservative movement in his Bradley ...

Neoconservatism. The word itself hearkens back to the aughts, complete with images of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, "No Country for Old Men" and "Everybody Loves Raymond," the wars in Afghanistan ...

George W. Bush left office with a public approval rating of just over one-third, tied with Jimmy Carter as the most unpopular president since Richard Nixon. Unpopular at home, Bush’s tenure also saw ...

Irving Kristol, the political writer and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into an emphatic rejection of communism and the counterculture, died ...