Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For all his eminence—or maybe because of it—the funeral for Irving Kristol this past September was an understated affair.

Irving Kristol, the political writer and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into an emphatic rejection of communism and the counterculture, died ...

Here, Kristol articulates the foreign policy vision—“Democratic Realism” is what Charles Krauthammer calls it—for which neoconservatism is known. Yet to Kristol’s great credit, he readily concedes ...

It is difficult to regard neoconservatism with anything other than distaste. Leading neocons, such as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Charles Krauthammer, and assorted members of the Kagan family, not ...

Irving Kristol, "the godfather of neoconservatism," offered a concise and somewhat myopic view of the intellectual contributions of neoconservatives to the broader conservative movement in his Bradley ...

Elliott Abrams unsurprisingly gives a completely self-serving and misleading definition of neoconservatism: Now we are getting closer. Omit the negative value judgments in some of these definitions ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The topic before the house- Has Neoconservatism Failed Or Succeeded? Part Two This week on Think Tank. WATTENBERG: Frank Fukuyama, welcome back to part 2 of or discussion about GeoPolitics. Give us a ...

George W. Bush left office with a public approval rating of just over one-third, tied with Jimmy Carter as the most unpopular president since Richard Nixon. Unpopular at home, Bush’s tenure also saw ...

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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 ...

With the publication of a capacious volume of essays by Irving Kristol under the title Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea, the movement set in motion by its author—a movement that began as ...