William Kristol will deliver the March 2011 Bradley Lecture at AEI.

Personal and Intellectual History

Alan Johnson: You were raised in a devoutly socialist family in the 1950s, and spent your adolescence running the US young socialist movement in the 1960s and early 1970s. As an adult you have been a leading figure in the neoconservative movement. People will assume a single rupture was involved in...

Over thelast months, the term "neoconservative" has been in the air as never before in its thirty-year career.

Neoconservatism has flowered again lately, and George W. Bush and his administration seem at home in the political environment created by neconservatism's renaissance.

What exactly is neoconservatism?

The essays in "The Neoconservative Persuasion" are a remarkable introduction to one of the few people who actually liked being called a neoconservative.

A who's who of scholars and friends, along with Irving Kristol's ideas, ideals, and contributions to American life as the nation's leading neoconservative.

AEI senior fellow Irving Kristol--godfather of the neoconservative movement--died peacefully at the age of eighty-nine.