John Hood explores the origins and tenets of modern American conservatism, which many now call "Freedom Conservatism." ...

I'm a conservative without a conversion story. Plenty of others have such a tale — they read a certain book, had a certain ...

I’m a conservative without a conversion story. Plenty of others have such a tale — they read a certain book, had a certain ...

Politics / As the president backs Israel’s long-awaited war with Iran, his neoconservative critics find themselves in an awkward position. David Klion Ten years ago this month, Donald Trump launched ...

As Irving Kristol noticed more than 40 years ago, “cracks keep appearing in this antiquated, bureaucratic alliance.” “We keep papering over the cracks,” Kristol explained, “but they ...

But it was Irving Kristol, ironically one of the founders of the neoconservative movement in America, who laid out the most forceful case for ending U.S. participation in NATO.

In President Trump’s world of US foreign policy, Irving Kristol can be seen as the godfather behind an ideology that has resulted in endless wars, skyrocketing national debt, and far-reaching ...

Profile Was Irving Kristol a Neoconservative? The "godfather" of neoconservatism started a movement that moved away from him.

The late conservative icon Irving Kristol memorably quipped that a “neo-conservative” — i.e., a reformed leftist, like him — is “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” ...

One key figure in the movement, Irving Kristol, could bring himself to muster just two cheers for capitalism. The ideas that constituted the first generation of what came to be called neoconservatism ...

Bill Kristol's father, Irving Kristol, became one of the original neocons during the 1970s. Until that point, he and his ideological compatriots had considered and called themselves Cold War liberals.