Irving Kristol

Who was Irving Kristol?

Irving Kristol was an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neo-conservatism." As the founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half-century; after his death he was described by The Daily Telegraph as being "perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the 20th century."

Famous Quotes:

• The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility
• The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
• What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived
• The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.