You can read part one here. The word “neoconservative” was coined by Michael Harrington and the editors of Dissent to describe their old friends who’d moved to the right. It was an insult ...

And nearly every other neoconservative has a similar trajectory, starting out in elite academia and then bouncing from position to position inside and outside the government, aided at every step ...

A historian of American intellectual thought would probably conclude that once there were actually serious neoconservative thinkers like Daniel Bell, Nathan Glaser, Daniel Patrick Moynihan ...

Irving Kristol, the godfather of the movement, defined a neoconservative as "a liberal who has been mugged by reality." From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the ...

Ben Wattenberg: As this argument has gotten rancorous, there is also an undertone that says that these neoconservative hawks, that so many of them are Jewish. Is that valid and how do you handle that?

The journalist Irving Kristol once remarked that a neoconservative is "a liberal who was mugged by reality." Like many early neocons, Kristol was a Marxist who became disillusioned with both the ...

nonetheless prompted swift condemnation from anti-interventionists on the right who see him as an unrepentant “neoconservative” — that is, a proponent of reshaping foreign governments for ...

There is, nowadays, a significant debate about the so-called NeoCon (neoconservative) philosophy of life and politics. Many wonder how good ...

His Life and Legend,” by Max Boot.

But his hawkish record and history of surrounding himself with neoconservative advisers make him a poor fit for the position: His career in national politics has been spent clamoring for war ...