Irving Kristol (1920-) is a leading neoconservative intellectual.

He attended the City College of New York, where he was an active Trotskyite.

He is the former managing editor of Commentary magazine and now a Senior Fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He's the Publisher of the supposedly realist foreign affairs magazine The National Interest. He describes himself as a "liberal mugged by reality."

He is also a father of William Kristol.

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  • There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.