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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... William Clouston, leader of the Social Democratic Party of the United Kingdom, sat down with The American Conservative at SDP’s annual ...
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 ...