For the packed house at the American Enterprise Institute on the evening of January 8, Charles Murray needed no introduction. We were there to celebrate the 75th birthday of the author of Losing Ground, The Bell Curve, and Coming Apart and to mark his transition to emeritus status at the…
Irving Kristol famously wrote in 1978 that we might offer "two cheers for capitalism"—an insight borrowed from E.M. Forster's similar suggestion about democracy. The phrase is a call for restraint among supporters of free-market economics. Kristol himself said he and his fellow neoconservative…
I'm pleased to let you know that the Foundation for Constitutional Government, which produces the Conversations that I've been hosting for a couple of years, has just released a series of websites called Contemporary Thinkers. The aim is to make more easily accessible the works of pioneering…
In 2011, James Ceaser reviewed in these pages a posthumous collection of Irving Kristol’s essays, The Neoconservative Persuasion. Ceaser was particularly struck by how interested Irving Kristol had been in religion:
Mosaic re-publishes "Adam and I: A Story," by Irving Kristol.
The Foundation for Constitutional Government has just released IrvingKristol.org, a handsome website dedicated to the work of Irving Kristol:
Why in the world do we need yet another “new” economics? Jamming the libraries and the bookstores of the world are avatars of what must be every variation on the great themes of market and managerial economics. Scores of Nobel Prizes have been awarded for various nugatory refinements of the…
"There were giants in the earth in those days.” The death on December 19 of Robert Bork—superb legal scholar, preeminent constitutional thinker, principled public servant—calls to mind the other giants of American conservatism who have left us in the last decade: Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol,…
THE SCRAPBOOK is pleased to note two fine reviews of the new collection of Irving Kristol’s essays, The Neoconservative Persuasion, reviewed in our pages a month ago by James Ceaser.
In his posthumous collection of essays, The Neoconservative Persuasion, Irving Kristol offers reflections into political and social issues that still hound us today. Take this passage, from his 1974 essay "Republican Virtue versus Servile Institutions," which, with a few changes in the specifics,…
The Neoconservative Persuasion
Bill Kristol went on MSNBC earlier this week to discuss the Neoconservative Persuasion, a new compilation of Irving Kristol's essays:
Must viewing this weekend: On C-Span's "After Words" series, Bill Kristol, who wrote the foreword to The Neoconservative Persuasion, the new collection of his late father's essays, discusses those essays and Irving Kristol's thought in general with David Brooks.
These remarks were prepared by Irving Kristol for a conference held November 30-December 1 by Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, "The Public Interest and the Making of American Public Policy: 1965-2005." I was, of course, immensely pleased to receive…
RONALD REAGAN was the most popular American president since FDR. He was also the most hated president since FDR. The reason he was hated was that his policies were often trans-partisan in bewildering ways. The reason he was popular was that his policies worked. This fact is still a puzzle to most…
BOB BARTLEY first entered my life in the late 1960s. He was then a young journalist on the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, and he wanted to interview me about The Public Interest, of which he was, he said, an avid reader. I was amazed. The magazine, then edited by Daniel Bell and…
"[President Bush is] an engaging person, but I think for some reason he's been captured by the neoconservatives around him." --Howard Dean, U.S. News & World Report, August 11, 2003
December 7, 1988
Editor's note: A look back at President Reagan, from the February 5, 2001 issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
I want to welcome David Lowenthal to the Walter Berns-Robert Bork-Irving Kristol Club. Each of us has, in the last three decades, argued in favor of censorship, using some of the same arguments as David Lowenthal. Many of our friends and colleagues assure us that, compared with the anti-censorship…
I want to welcome David Lowenthal to the Walter Berns-Robert Bark-Irving Kristol Club. Each of us has, in the last three decades, argued in favor of censorship, using some of the same arguments as David Lowenthal. Many of our friends and colleagues assure us that, compared with the anti-censorship…