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 ...

It was Podhoretz, however, who gave neoconservatism its most explicitly Jewish cast. The August 1968 issue of Commentary featured Emil Fackenheim’s famous essay, “Jewish Faith and the Holocaust: A ...

President Trump’s war has achieved nothing while badly damaging his party. Don’t expect future presidents to follow suit.

Neoconservatism. The word itself hearkens back to the aughts, complete with images of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, "No Country for Old Men" and "Everybody Loves Raymond," the wars in Afghanistan ...

Shadi Hamid was my foil on a 2021 panel at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. I presented a paper arguing that the U.S. was supporting a rogue's gallery of expansionist states in the ...

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 ...

The movement called neoconservatism has provided the intellectual foundation for the resurgence of American conservatism in our time. And if neoconservatism can be said to have a father or an ...

This continuity begins with a sense of “neoconservatism” as a doctrine offering comprehensive policy guidance to which all “neoconservatives” adhere. The next element is the imputation to ...

As a young student of politics in the 1970s, Mark Lilla adored The Public Interest. The small-circulation public-policy journal had been founded in 1965 by Irving Kristol and Daniel Bell in the hope ...

Asked to weigh in on co-keynoting a conference with national security adviser John Bolton, Tucker Carlson demurred, saying different perspectives should be heard. Bolton was similarly deferential ...

Charles Krauthammer, not content with having been proven deadly wrong in his worldview of many years, learning nothing from the bloody disasters of the policies he so aggressively promoted, now ...