Irving William Kristol Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Irving Kristol (January 22, 1920 – September 18, 2009) was an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neo-conservatism." As the founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half-century; after his death he was described by The Daily Telegraph as being "perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the 20th century."
Grandfather of Anne Elizabeth Kristol Continetti (born in 1986) of Washington D.C.
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Along with his wife, whom he met at a Trotskyist meeting, he spearheaded the neo-conservatism movement of the late 1960s. He defined "neo-conservatism" as a political and intellectual philosophy for disaffected liberals who had been "mugged by reality.".