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Date of Birth
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22-January-1920
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Place of Birth
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Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Irving William Kristol
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Profession
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Journalist, Writer, Editor
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Quotes
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- The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility
- The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
- What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived
- The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.
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Irving Kristol 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."
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