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News NYT: Iriving Kristol "Godfather of Modern Conservatism" ?!?

NYT: Iriving Kristol NYT: Iriving Kristol "Godfather of Modern Conservatism" ?!?

Submitted by ironhead | 6 months ago

NY Times - Irving Kristol, the political commentator who, as much as anyone, defined modern conservatism and helped revitalize the Republican Party in the late 1960s and early ’70s, setting the stage for the Reagan presidency and years of conservative dominance, died Friday in Arlington, Va. He was 89 and lived in Washington.

Tags: Neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, New York Times

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Shotgun314159 (Democratic) - 6 months ago

He was a intellectual. That will be missed.
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James Warren
It is so very revealing, and melancholy, that on the day Irving Kristol passed away, a tongue-wagging Glenn Beck stares at us from the cover of Time magazine. Ah, for a return to simpler, more civil times.

When I was growing up in New York, Irving Kristol was not some seminal thinker or “godfather” of any intellectual movement; at least not to me. It was many years before I had any clue about all that, or was unavoidably impressed.

http://blog.american.com/?p=5156

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ironhead (Libertarian) - 6 months ago

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Mr. Howe recruited Mr. Kristol into the Trotskyists, and though Mr. Kristol’s career as a foll … Show full comment

I was going to comment on that earlier when I posted the article, but my electricity went out.

Anyway, Kristol was the godfather of neoconservatism, which is quite distinct from Old Right conservatism of Robert Taft and then also of modern conservatism, which was really defined by people like Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Shotgun314159 (Democratic) - 6 months ago

Mr. Howe recruited Mr. Kristol into the Trotskyists, and though Mr. Kristol’s career as a follower of the apostate Communist Leon Trotsky was brief, it lasted beyond his graduation from City College, long enough for him to meet Ms. Himmelfarb at a Trotskyist gathering in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

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Imagine that...
Kristol was a Trotsky.

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