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Article Excerpt
I ARRIVED at The Public Interest in the spring of 1994. Irving Kristol would soon, in an excess of modesty, declare neoconservatism a generational phenomenon, now absorbed into a larger conservative whole. Yet less than a decade later, I was fielding phone calls from curious reporters as far off as Argentina, Japan, and various European outposts who wanted to know what neoconservatism was. They would ask me to speak to its influence on the Bush administration's foreign and social policies, and its relation to the Religious Right. Neoconservatism was apparently back.
Of course, the September 11 attacks and the war in Iraq were the proximate causes of this resurgent interest in neoconservatism. But it's also the case that neoconservatism, especially as it came to be embodied in The Public Interest, has left a unique and lasting imprint on American intellectual life, and on American conservatism in particular. It will be the task of historians to assign The Public Interest its place and to assess its contribution. What I can offer at present, in this our fortieth anniversary year, and our last issue, are a few provisional reflections.
I would begin with what's most obvious but perhaps also overlooked, the journal's name. The founders of the PI believed...
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