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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Irving Kristol

Irving Kristol stories: 3 news summaries
OPINION

 New Safires 
 and Cronkites 
 Needed, Not 
 Ranters: Noonan  

Time for the next generation of media elders to put the national debate on an even keel

Oct 2, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elder statesmen of the media like Walter Cronkite and William Safire are dropping at an alarming rate, and their replacements need to step up, writes Peggy Noonan. Ranters on the right and the left—like MSNBC's Ed Schultz, who says Republicans "want to see you dead"—are proliferating,... More »

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journalism • journalist • Walter Cronkite • Irving Kristol • William Safire

(Newser) - Bill Kristol remembers his late father as a man of a "deep modesty" who "loved intellectual pursuits but always shunned intellectual pretension." Irving Kristol, who died earlier this month at age 89, is generally regarded as the architect of neoconservatism, but the honors he accrued never gave... More »

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Weekly Standard • memorial • right wingers • conservatism • neoconservatives • William Kristol • Irving Kristol

appreciation

Counterculture Made Kristol
an Ex-Liberal  

Fear of post-'60s 'moral crisis'  spurred neocon's shift right

Sep 19, 09 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - "Neoconservative" was originally a label applied to newly conservative ex-liberals and Irving Kristol, the late godfather of the movement, was among the first and finest of the kind, E. J. Dionne writes in the Washington Post. Kristol made a powerful case for "pragmatic liberalist" when he was still... More »

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neocon • conservatism • neoconservatives • William Kristol • counterculture • Irving Kristol

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