Events Detail

The Neoconservative Persuasion

By Irving Kristol

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Hudson Institute - Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
1015 15th Street, NW - Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005

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Event Description

As conservatives try once again to re-envision America's future and how to secure it, the publication of this volume of previously uncollected essays by Irving Kristol, "the godfather of neoconservativism," could not be timelier. The fifty essays, spanning seven decades and organized thematically, display the enormous range of Kristol's interests and concerns, as well as what editor Gertrude Himmelfarb calls his "distinctive intellectual sensibility—skeptical, commonsensible, eclectic, and at the same time strong-minded and hard-headed." At once prescient and wise, the essays are models of serious thought about the ideas that always inform politics and the myriad ways in which politics, culture, economics, and religion intersect.

Four panelists—Leon Kass, (Madden-Jewett Chair, American Enterprise Institute); Charles Krauthammer (Pulitzer prize-winning syndicated columnist and political commentator); William Kristol (Editor, The Weekly Standard); and Irwin Stelzer (Economist, columnist, and Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute)—all closely familiar with the rich terrain of Irving Kristol's thought and each uniquely suited to address a particular aspect of it, discussed The Neoconservative Persuasion (Basic Books). Hudson CEO Kenneth Weinstein introduced the panel, and Hudson Senior Fellow Amy Kass served as moderator.

    (Top) Weinstein, Kristol, A. Kass, L. Kass

         (Bottom) Krauthammer and Stelzer

11:45 a.m.
Registration, lunch buffet

12:00 p.m.
Welcome by Hudson Institute CEO Kenneth Weinstein

12:10
Panel discussion
Amy Kass, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute (moderator)
Leon Kass, Madden-Jewett Chair, American Enterprise Institute
Charles Krauthammer, Syndicated columnist and political commentator
William Kristol, Editor of The Weekly Standard
Irwin Stelzer, Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies, Hudson Institute

1:10
Question-and-answer session

2:00`
Adjournment

Read the New York Times' book review of The Neoconservative Persuasion here