| Irving Kristol  Born: 22-Jan-1920
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 18-Sep-2009
Location of death: Arlington, VA [1]
Cause of death: Cancer - Lung
Remains: Buried, Adas Israel Cemetery, Washington, DC
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Columnist, Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Influential neocon Military service: US Army Irving Kristol began his political life as a member of the Young People's Socialist League in the 1930s. He considered himself a Trotskyist throughout his years as an undergrad at the City College of New York. But sometime after graduation, he experienced a complete and total change of heart. Kristol described himself as "a liberal who was mugged by reality."
He helped to found what would be called the Neoconservative movement, a radical organization whose goals he would ultimately describe as: "to convert the Republican Party, and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics suitable to governing a modern democracy."
In 1953 England, Kristol founded the magazine Encounter, secretly funded with seed money from the CIA by way of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. He is the father of present-day right-wing pundit Bill Kristol.
[1] Capital Hospice, Arlington, VA.
Father: Joseph Kristol
Wife: Gertrude Himmelfarb (historian, m. 1942, one son, one daughter)
Son: Bill Kristol (editor of The Weekly Standard)
High School: Boys' High, Brooklyn, NY
University: BA History, City College of New York (1940)
President's Commission on White House Fellowships
American Association for the Advancement of Science 1972
American Council of Trustees and Alumni National Council; Donors Working Group
American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow (1977-)
American Enterprise Institute John M. Olin Distinguished Fellow (1988-99)
Council on Foreign Relations
Committee for the Free World
Coalition for a Democratic Majority
Institute for Educational Affairs Co-Founder
Jewish Policy Center Board of Fellows
National Association of Scholars Advisory board member
Project for the New American Century
Young People's Socialist League
Commentary Magazine Managing Editor (1947-52)
Encounter Co-Founder and Editor (1953-58)
The National Interest Founder and Publisher (1985-2002)
The Public Interest Co-editor (1965-2002)
The Reporter Editor (1959-60)
The Wall Street Journal Board of Contributors (1972-)
Presidential Medal of Freedom 9-Jul-2002
Risk Factors: Smoking
Author of books:
On the Democratic Idea in America (1972, politics)
Two Cheers for Capitalism (1978, politics)
Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead (1983, essays)
Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (1995, politics)
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