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=="Mugged by Reality"==

=="Mugged by Reality"==

Kristol reports that [[Lionel Trilling]] was one of the "two thinkers who had the greatest subsequent impact on my thinking."  The other was [[Leo Strauss]].<ref> Irving Kristol, ''Neoconservatism'' (1995) p. 6</ref>  Reacting against the New Left, against the counter-culture’s attack on bourgeois values, and especially against what he saw as the a liberal foreign policy that failed to recognize the need for a tough anti-Communist foreign policy, he and the neoconservatives moved right. In a nutshell, said Kristol, they were "liberals mugged by reality". Kristol, who had endorsed Democrat [[Hubert Humphrey]] in 1968, supported Republican [[Richard Nixon]] in 1972.  

Kristol reports that [[Lionel Trilling]] was one of the "two thinkers who had the greatest subsequent impact on my thinking."  The other was [[Leo Strauss]].<ref>Irving Kristol, ''Neoconservatism'' (1995) p. 6</ref>  Reacting against the New Left, against the counter-culture’s attack on bourgeois values, and especially against what he saw as the a liberal foreign policy that failed to recognize the need for a tough anti-Communist foreign policy, he and the neoconservatives moved right. In a nutshell, said Kristol, they were "liberals mugged by reality". Kristol, who had endorsed Democrat [[Hubert Humphrey]] in 1968, supported Republican [[Richard Nixon]] in 1972.  

He was the father of [[William Kristol]] and the husband of historian [[Gertrude Himmelfarb]]. <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/us/politics/19kristol.html</ref>

He was the father of [[William Kristol]] and the husband of historian [[Gertrude Himmelfarb]].<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/us/politics/19kristol.html</ref>

==See also==

==See also==

* [[Neoconservative]]

* [[Neoconservative]]