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==Link with Jay Lovestone==
 
==Link with Jay Lovestone==
Kristol was known at College as a 'Lovestonite' i.e. a follower of the [[CIA]]-linked ex-communist labour leader [[Jay Lovestone]].<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/may/22/guardianobituaries Obituary: Melvin Lasky: Cold warrior who edited the CIA-funded Encounter magazine], by Andrew Roth, Guardian, 22 May 2004.</ref Lovestone strongly praised Kristol's March 1952 ''[[Commentary]]'' article'''Civil Liberties', 1952—A Study in Confusion'' in a letter to the magazine.<ref>[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/-civil-liberties--1952-11939 “Civil Liberties”: 1952, Reader Letters], Commentary, May 1952.</ref>
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Kristol was known at College as a 'Lovestonite' i.e. a follower of the [[CIA]]-linked ex-communist labour leader [[Jay Lovestone]].<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/may/22/guardianobituaries Obituary: Melvin Lasky: Cold warrior who edited the CIA-funded Encounter magazine], by Andrew Roth, Guardian, 22 May 2004.</ref> Lovestone strongly praised Kristol's March 1952 ''[[Commentary]]'' article'''Civil Liberties', 1952—A Study in Confusion'' in a letter to the magazine.<ref>[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/-civil-liberties--1952-11939 “Civil Liberties”: 1952, Reader Letters], Commentary, May 1952.</ref>
  
 
==External Resources==
 
==External Resources==

Revision as of 22:22, 26 October 2009

Irving Kristol was a central figure in he emergence of neoconservatism. Acording to Jacob Heilbrunn, "Neoconservatism was turned into an actual movement by Kristol and Norman Podhoretz. Even today, the neoconservative movement is best understood as an extended family based largely on the informal social networks patiently forged by these two patriarchs.[1]

Link with Jay Lovestone

Kristol was known at College as a 'Lovestonite' i.e. a follower of the CIA-linked ex-communist labour leader Jay Lovestone.[2] Lovestone strongly praised Kristol's March 1952 Commentary article'Civil Liberties', 1952—A Study in Confusion in a letter to the magazine.[3]

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  1. They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, by Jacob Heilbrunn, Doubleday, 2008, p68.
  2. Obituary: Melvin Lasky: Cold warrior who edited the CIA-funded Encounter magazine, by Andrew Roth, Guardian, 22 May 2004.
  3. “Civil Liberties”: 1952, Reader Letters, Commentary, May 1952.