Irving Kristol, 1920-2009

Irving Kristol- the father of Neoconservatism, that brand of right-of-center thought based on pragmatism but often caricatured by ideologically motivated and the simply ill-informed as essentially Bush-style interventionism, is dead at 89.

Kristol himself once described a Neoconservative as "a liberal who has been mugged by reality." He will be missed by all those who value sound, realistic and independent thinking in the realm of politics.