Neoconservatism - Autobiography of Idea - Selected Essays, 1949-1995
Neoconservatism is the movement that has provided the intellectual foundation for the resurgence of American conservatis
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Table of contents :
An autobiographical memoir --
Race, sex, and family. Welfare : the best of intentions, the worst of results --
The tragedy of "multiculturalism" --
Reflections on love and family --
Men, women, and sex --
AIDS and false innocence --
Life without father --
From adversary culture to counterculture. American intellectuals and foreign policy --
Capitalism, socialism, and nihilism --
The adversary culture of intellectuals --
The cultural revolution and the capitalist future --
Countercultures --
On capitalism and the democratic idea. Machiavelli and the profanation of politics --
About equality --
The frustrations of affluence --
Utopianism, ancient and modern --
Social reform : gains and losses --
Business and the "new class" --
Corporate capitalism in America --
On conservatism and capitalism --
The American Revolution as a successful revolution --
What is "social justice?" --
Adam Smith and the spirit of capitalism --
Socialism : an obituary for an idea. The conservative prospect. American historians and the democratic idea --
Urban civilization and its discontents --
The Republican future --
"The stupid party" --
The emergence of two Republican parties --
The new populism : not to worry --
The coming "conservative century" --
The new face of American politics --
America's "exceptional conservatism" --
On Jews. God and the psychoanalysts --
Einstein : the passion of pure reason --
Is Jewish humor dead? --
Christianity, Judaism, and socialism --
The future of American Jewry --
Some backward glances. Memoirs of a "cold warrior" --
Memoirs of a Trotskyist --
My cold war.
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SERVATISM The Autobiography of an Idea
IRVING KRISTOL
"Mr. Kristol possesses a genius for making his sophisticated and
nuanced arguments appear the commonplaces of everyman....He has thought and written with admirable clarity, honesty, and courage."
—James Neuchterlein, Wall
Street Journal
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NEOCONSERVATISM
IRVING KRISTOL NEO CONSERVATISM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN IDEA