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'''Irving Kristol''' (1920-2009) was a [[neoconservative]] political writer, activist, and strategist. He took pride in being called "the godfather of neoconservatism." Kristol, like many New York intellectuals of his age, moved left to right across the political spectrum, and brought along with him his readers as editor of Basic Books, editor of journals like ''The Public Interest'' and ''The National Interest,'' founder and editor of ''The Weekly Standard'' (now edited by his son, William Kristol), and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was the Henry R. Luce professor of urban values in NYU's business school.

'''Irving Kristol''' (1920-2009) was a [[neoconservative]] political writer, activist, and strategist. He took pride in being called "the godfather of neoconservatism." Kristol, like many New York intellectuals of his age, moved left to right across the political spectrum, and brought along with him his readers as editor of Basic Books, editor of journals like ''The Public Interest'' and ''The National Interest,'' founder and editor of ''The Weekly Standard'' (now edited by his son, William Kristol), and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was the Henry R. Luce professor of urban values in NYU's business school.

''The Public Interest'' began in 1965 with the mission of challenging liberals to pay more attention to data and to the dangers of the unintended consequences of their programs.  

Traditional conservatives labeled it "big-government conservatism" and distrusted the mahgazine's heavy reliance on social science. Libertarians distrusted the reliance on government action for conservative goals.

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.  

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.