Irving Kristol
American neoconservatism as well as a prominent Jew.
He attended the City College of New York, where he was an active Trotskyite. He wrote in 1983 that he was ?proud? to have been a member of the Fourth International in 1940.
He is the former managing editor of Commentary magazine and now a Senior Fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He's the Publisher of the foreign affairs magazine The National Interest. He describes himself as a "liberal mugged by reality."
He is also the father of William Kristol.
Quotes
Attributed
- "A neoconservative is just a liberal who got mugged by reality."
- "There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work."
Books
- Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea 1995 (ISBN 0028740211)
- Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead 1983 (ISBN 0465068723)
- Two Cheers for Capitalism 1978 (ISBN 0465088031)
- The American Revolution as a successful revolution (Distinguished lecture series on the Bicentennial) 1973 (ISBN 0844713007)
