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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.
He is 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>
''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.
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]]