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Irving William Kristol (; January 22, – September 18, ) was an American journalist and writer. As a founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the latter half of the twentieth century.^[1] He was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism".^[2][3] After his death, he was described by The Daily Telegraph as being "perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the century".^[4] He is the father of political writerBill Kristol.

Early life and education

Kristol was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of non-observant Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Bessie (Mailman) and Joseph Kristol.^[5][6] He graduated from Boys High School in Brooklyn, New York in and received his B.A. from the City College of New York in , where he majored in history.

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In college he was a member of the Young People's Socialist League and was part of a small but vocal group of Trotskyist anti-Soviets who later became known as the New York Intellectuals. It was at these meetings that Kristol met historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, whom he married in They had two children, Elizabeth Nelson and Bill Kristol.^[7][8] During World War II, he served in Europe in the 12th Armored Division as a combat infantryman.^[9]

Career

Kristol was affiliated with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

He wrote in Commentary magazine from to under the editor Elliot E. Cohen (not to be confused with Eliot A. Cohen, a current Commentary contributor). With Stephen Spender, he was co-founder of and contributor to the British-based Encounter from to ; editor of The Reporter from to He also was the executive vice-president of the publishing house Basic Books from to , the Henry Luce Professor of Urban Values at New York University from to , and co-founder and co-editor (first with Daniel Bell and then Nathan Glazer) of The Public Interest from to He was the founder and publisher of The National Interest from to Following Ramparts' publication of information showing Central Intelligence Agency funding of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which was widely reported elsewhere, Kristol left in the late s and became affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute.^[10]

Kristol was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute (having been an associate fellow from , a senior fellow from and the John M.

Olin Distinguished Fellow from to ). As a member of the board of contributors of The Wall Street Journal, he contributed a monthly column from to He served on the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities from to

In , Kristol and William E. Simon founded The Institute For Education Affairs, which as a result of a merger with the Madison Center became the Madison Center for Educational Affairs in

Death

Kristol died from complications of lung cancer, aged 89, on September 18, , at the Capital Hospice in Falls Church, Virginia.^[2][11]

Ideas

During the late s up until the s, neoconservatives were worried about the Cold War and that its liberalism was turning into radicalism, thus many neoconservatives including Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz and Daniel Patrick Moynihan wanted Democrats to continue on a strong anti-communist foreign policy.^[12] This foreign policy was to use Soviet human rights violations to attack the Soviet Union.^[12] This later led to Nixon's policies called détente.^[12] Kristol did not believe that the same civil liberties should be granted to communists because it would be like paying "a handsome salary to someone pledged to his liquidation".^[13]

In , Michael Harrington coined the term, "neo-conservatism", to describe those liberal intellectuals and political philosophers who were disaffected with the political and cultural attitudes dominating the Democratic Party and were moving toward a new form of conservatism.^[14] Intended by Harrington as a pejorative term, it was accepted by Kristol as an apt description of the ideas and policies exemplified by The Public Interest.

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Unlike liberals, for example, neo-conservatives rejected most of the Great Society programs sponsored by Lyndon B. Johnson and, unlike traditional conservatives, they supported the more limited welfare state instituted by Franklin D. Roosevelt.^{[citation needed]}

In February , Kristol was featured on the cover of Esquire.

The caption identified him as "the godfather of the most powerful new political force in America – Neo-conservatism".^[15] That year also saw the publication of the book, The Neo-conservatives: The Men Who Are Changing America's Politics. Like Harrington, the author, Peter Steinfels, was critical of neo-conservatism, but he was impressed by its growing political and intellectual influence.

Kristol's response appeared under the title "Confessions of a True, Self-Confessed – Perhaps the Only – 'Neo-conservative'".^[16]

Neo-conservatism, Kristol maintained, is not an ideology but a "persuasion", a way of thinking about politics rather than a compendium of principles and axioms.^[17] It is classical, rather than romantic, in temperament and practical and anti-utopian in policy.

One of Kristol's most well-known quips defines a neo-conservative as "a liberal who has been mugged by reality". These concepts lie at the core of neo-conservative philosophy to this day.^[18]

While propounding the virtues of supply-side economics as the basis for the economic growth that is "a sine qua non for the survival of a modern democracy", he also insists that any economic philosophy has to be enlarged by "political philosophy, moral philosophy, and even religious thought", which were as much the sine qua non for a modern democracy.^[19]

One of his early books, Two Cheers for Capitalism, asserts that capitalism, or more precisely, bourgeois capitalism, is worthy of two cheers.

One cheer because "it works, in a quite simple, material sense" by improving the conditions of people; and a second cheer because it is "congenial to a large measure of personal liberty". He argues these are no small achievements and only capitalism has proved capable of providing them. However, it also imposes a great "psychic burden" upon the individual and the social order.

Because it does not meet the individual's "'existential' human needs", it creates a "spiritual malaise" that threatens the legitimacy of that social order. As much as anything else, it is the withholding of that potential third cheer that is the distinctive mark of neo-conservatism as Kristol understood it.^[20]

Regarding foreign policy Kristol said "What's the point in being the greatest, most powerful nation in the world and not having an imperial role?", adding that the USA "should play a far more dominant role in world affairs" in form of "command[s] and giving orders as to what is to be done".^[21] Kristol was pessimistic about the prospects of the Vietnam War, believing that South Vietnam was "barely capable of decent self-government under the best of conditions.

It lacks the political traditions, the educated classes, the civic spirit that makes self-government workable." Due to this the most America could hope for would be to "remove this little, backward nation from the front line of the Cold War so that it can stew quietly in its own political juice".^[22]

Awards and honors

In July , he received from PresidentGeorge W.

Bush the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Articles

• “Other People's Nerve” (as William Ferry), Enquiry, May
• “James Burnham's 'The Machiavellians'" (as William Ferry), Enquiry, July (A review of The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham.)
• “Koestler: A Note on Confusion,” Politics, May
• “The Indefatigable Fabian,” New York Times Book Review, August 24, (A review of Beatrice Webb's Diaries: –, edited by Margaret I.

  Cole.)

• "Men and Ideas: Niccolo Machiavelli," Encounter, December
• "American Intellectuals and Foreign Policy," Foreign Affairs, July (repr.
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  in On the Democratic Idea in America).

• "Memoirs of a Cold Warrior," New York Times Magazine, February 11, (repr. in Reflections of a Neo-conservative).
• "When Virtue Loses All Her Loveliness," The Public Interest, Fall (repr. in On the Democratic Idea in America and Two Cheers for Capitalism).
• "Pornography, Obscenity, and Censorship," New York Times Magazine, March 28, (repr.

  in On the Democratic Idea in America and Reflections of a Neo-conservative).

• "Utopianism, Ancient and Modern," Imprimus, April (repr. in Two Cheers for Capitalism).
• "Adam Smith and the Spirit of Capitalism," The Great Ideas Today, ed. Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler, (repr. in Reflections of a Neo-conservative).
• "Memoirs of a Trotskyist," New York Times Magazine, January 23, (repr.

  in Reflections of a Neo-conservative).

• "The Adversary Culture of Intellectuals," Encounter, October (repr. in Reflections of a Neo-conservative).
• "The Hidden Cost of Regulation", The Wall Street Journal.

Books

Authored

• On the Democratic Idea in America.

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• Two Cheers for Capitalism: A Penetrating Assessment Of Free Enterprise And The Corporate System. ISBN&#;
• Reflections of a Neo-conservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead. ISBN&#;
• Neo-conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea.
  Igor kristol biography Irving Kristol was one of the most influential writers, editors, and political commentators of the last half of the twentieth century. His essays are remarkable for their wry wit, their lightly worn erudition, and their elegant accessibility. Other appreciations, by writers including James Q. Ceaser , and Eric Cohen , are also worth reading. The memoir by my husband introducing his last volume of essays in , Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea , opens with a typical Irving Kristol quip:.

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• The Neo-conservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, –. New York: Basic Books, ISBN&#;
• On Jews and Judaism: Selected Essays. Barnes & Noble,

Edited

Contributed

• ”Rationalism in Economics” (Chapter 12). The Crisis in Economic Theory. Edited with Daniel Bell. New York: Basic Books, p.&#;

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