"The 'Hidden Hand' of the Conservative Movement"

"Neoconservatism may have begun as a dispute among liberals about the nature of the welfare state, but under Mr. Kristol it became a more encompassing perspective, what he variously called a 'persuasion,' an 'impulse,' a 'new synthesis.' Against what he saw as the 'nihilistic' onslaught of the ’60s counterculture, Mr. Kristol, in the name of neoconservatism, mounted an ever more muscular defense of capitalism, bourgeois values and the aspirations of the common man that took him increasingly to the right."

Barry Gewan in The New York Times writes an obit for Irving Kristol.