Irving Kristol, Edmund Burke & the Rabbis

Renowned as a founder of neoconservativism, Irving Kristol was "neo" in other respects as well. "Is there such a thing as a ‘neo' gene?" he once asked, because, if there was, he certainly had it. By his own account, before he became a neoconservative, he was a neo-Marxist, a neo-Trotskyite, a neo-socialist, and a neoliberal. But "one ‘neo'," he acknowledged, "has been permanent throughout my life, and it is probably at the root of all the others. I have been ‘neo-Orthodox' in my religious views (though not in my religious observance)."