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''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.  

''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.  

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 moved right. 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.  

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>