Irving Kristol, the writer, editor, and publisher who died Friday at the age of 89, will be best remembered as the intellectual “godfather” of “neoconservatism,” a set of ideas many credit with ...

Washington, D.C.–Historian David Hackett Fischer, who has played a pivotal role in reviving popular and academic interest in American history and its lessons for the present, has been selected to ...

The American Enterprise Institute has named its highest award and lectureship for Irving Kristol. The Kristol Award will be presented at the Institute’s annual dinner to an individual, selected by the ...

Kristol, in his youth, was a committed Trotskyist, subscribing to the revolutionary vision of global revolution. He was deeply involved in the leader’s Fourth International, a Marxist organization ...

But the notoriety the neocons attained for supporting that war has obscured their origins as a dissident faction within the ...

That’s what the FBI was asking itself in 1988. That year is not a typo. Gawker has scans of the FBI documents showing that the reputed Godfather of neo-conservatism was a person of interest in an ...

WASHINGTON -- Irving Kristol, the political writer and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the ...

PODHORETZ’S AND Kristol’s approaches to international affairs remained dissimilar while their postures on domestic affairs began converging in the late 1960s. Both men tepidly opposed American ...

A new book by Phil Tinline recounts the history of a 1967 hoax and its ongoing influence as source code for antigovernment conspiracy theories. By Jeff Shesol Her arguments that a little more ...

Her arguments that a little more virtuousness trumps any number of government social programs made her a hero to some and a bête noire to others. By Douglas Martin Do we really want to go back to the ...