Reflections Of A Neoconservative by Irving Kristol

Looking Back, Looking Ahead

A collection of essays charting the rise of neoconservative thought from liberal disillusionment, critiquing Great Society social policy and utopian social engineering, defending the moral foundations of capitalism, stressing religion and civic virtue, and advocating a firm anti-communist foreign policy; it blends cultural criticism with policy analysis to argue for pragmatic realism, market-oriented reform, and the preservation of bourgeois values in a democratic society.