Irving Kristol, the former Trotskyite who turned sharply anti-Communist and shaped modern U.S. politics and foreign policy as the "godfather" of neoconservatism, died Friday at the age of 89.But what is neoconservatism? What does it mean to be called a "neocon"? The term is used by leftists as a slur, especially in North America. But Kristol argues that neoconservatism is where many disillusioned liberals found their intellectual home after the economic and social chaos caused by liberal policies during the 1970s.
From the August 25, 2003 issue of The Weekly Standard, here is Irving Kristol's The Neoconservative Persuasion: What it was, and what it is.
Read the whole thing.
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