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...late Irving Kristol??intellectual godfather of modern neoconservatism and a pretty sharp cookie—didn’t think so. It’s why, after living in New York all his life, he decided in 1988 to jump ship. While the worlds of visual media, publishing, and finance were still thriving, he said, the “literary” intellectualism of the Trilling-Sontag variety (definition: “a dinner party can become acrimonious over such issues as Freudian analysis”) was extinct, or at least highly endangered. Kristol personally decided to head...
...conservative tradition. His father, Irving Kristol, chartered the school of thought known as “neoconservatism,” and he studied for his doctorate under Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., ’53, conservativism’s elder statesman and principal brain trust. Despite these credentials, Mr. Kristol??s short run on the Times’s editorial page had yielded little more than uninspired boilerplate. With Mr. Douthat taking his stead, the Times will now feature a conservative whose intellectual vintage is much younger but who has already earned a reputation as an independent thinker...
...succession of Mr. Douthat to Mr. Kristol??s post perhaps represents a larger movement within conservatism. As the American right, hammered by two consecutive electoral defeats and without a clear political or intellectual leader, struggles to find its identity, Mr. Douthat will be able to articulate a fresh vision and sound principles in which his moribund movement may rediscover its raison d’être...
...continuation of the role that Ross found for himself on the Harvard campus,” he said. “He made the back page of the Harvard Salient a must-read for three years.” Douthat isn’t just a fill-in for Kristol??s specific conservative voice, Ambinder said. “It’s safe [for the Times] to choose a Bill Kristol because he won’t persuade people to see his point of view,” he said. “Ross isn?...
...last year, in which Kristol spoke to the group then allowed students the opportunity to ask questions. Motley said that having the meeting in a small venue like the Winthrop JCR encourages students to linger around after the event to discuss what the speaker said, as they did after Kristol??s speech. The leaders said they hoped that bringing Rove to campus would be a good way to share the club’s Republican values with other members of the Harvard community. “I think that one of the things that Karl Rove...