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The Public Interest was a quarterly conservative economics and culture journal founded by Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol

Irving Kristol has been dubbed the "godfather of Neoconservatism ." As the founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he has played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half-century....
 in 1965. It was a leading journal on politics and culture, aimed at a readership of journalists, scholars, and policy makers. Its focus has at various times settled on the fate of social security, the character of Generation X, crime and punishment, love and courtship, the culture wars, the tax wars, the state of the underclass, the salaries of the overclass
Overclass

Overclass is a recent and pejorative term for the most powerful group in a social hierarchy. Users of the term generally imply excessive and unjust privilege and exploitation of the rest of society....
.

The magazine published such prominent writers as James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson

James Q. Wilson is an American academic political scientist and an authority on public administration....
, Charles Murray
Charles Murray

Charles Murray is the name of several notable people:*Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore *Charles Augustus Murray , British author diplomat...
, Martin Feldstein
Martin Feldstein

Martin Stuart "Marty" Feldstein is a Conservatism in the United States United States of America economics. He is currently the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and the president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research ....
, Leon Kass
Leon Kass

Leon Richard Kass is an United States physician, educator, and public intellectual, best known as an opponent of human cloning, embryonic stem cell research, and euthanasia; as a critic of unrestrained technological progress; and for his controversial tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005....
, Irwin M. Stelzer
Irwin Stelzer

Irwin M. Stelzer is an United States economist who resides in London. He is the U.S. economic and business columinst for The Sunday Times , The Courier-Mail and a contributing editor of The Weekly Standard....
, Daniel P.






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The Public Interest was a quarterly conservative economics and culture journal founded by Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol

Irving Kristol has been dubbed the "godfather of Neoconservatism ." As the founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he has played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half-century....
 in 1965. It was a leading journal on politics and culture, aimed at a readership of journalists, scholars, and policy makers. Its focus has at various times settled on the fate of social security, the character of Generation X, crime and punishment, love and courtship, the culture wars, the tax wars, the state of the underclass, the salaries of the overclass
Overclass

Overclass is a recent and pejorative term for the most powerful group in a social hierarchy. Users of the term generally imply excessive and unjust privilege and exploitation of the rest of society....
.

The magazine published such prominent writers as James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson

James Q. Wilson is an American academic political scientist and an authority on public administration....
, Charles Murray
Charles Murray

Charles Murray is the name of several notable people:*Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore *Charles Augustus Murray , British author diplomat...
, Martin Feldstein
Martin Feldstein

Martin Stuart "Marty" Feldstein is a Conservatism in the United States United States of America economics. He is currently the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and the president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research ....
, Leon Kass
Leon Kass

Leon Richard Kass is an United States physician, educator, and public intellectual, best known as an opponent of human cloning, embryonic stem cell research, and euthanasia; as a critic of unrestrained technological progress; and for his controversial tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005....
, Irwin M. Stelzer
Irwin Stelzer

Irwin M. Stelzer is an United States economist who resides in London. He is the U.S. economic and business columinst for The Sunday Times , The Courier-Mail and a contributing editor of The Weekly Standard....
, Daniel P. Moynihan, Nathan Glazer
Nathan Glazer

Nathan Glazer is an United States sociologist, who taught at UC Berkeley and Harvard University. He is a domestic policy neoconservative, editor of the defunct policy journal The Public Interest, and formerly a frequent contributor to The New Republic....
, Glenn C. Loury, Stephan Thernstrom
Stephan Thernstrom

Stephan Thernstrom is the Winthrop Research Professor of History at Harvard University. He was the editor of the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups and the author of several books including Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in the 19th Century....
, Abigail Thernstrom
Abigail Thernstrom

Abigail Thernstrom is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York, a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, and vice chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights....
, Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama

Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama is an American philosopher, Political economy, and author....
, and David Brooks
David Brooks

David Brooks is the name of:* David Allen Brooks , American film and television actor who played archaeologist Max Eilerson on the science-fiction television series Crusade...
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Its final issue was printed April 25 2005 after 40 years of being in print. Towards the end its readership had declined significantly, most likely because demand for quarterlies had fallen as the pace of news and information technology had increased. Irving wrote on the history of the journal in his article "Forty Good Years".

Its senior editors were Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer. Its publication committee included Francis Fukuyama, Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer , is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated Op-Ed and Pundit . His weekly column appears in the The Washington Post and is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers and media outlets....
, William Kristol
William Kristol

William Kristol is an United States Politics of the United States analyst and commentator. He is the founder and editor of the political magazine The Weekly Standard, a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel, and a former conservative op-ed for the New York Times....
, Charles Murray
Charles Murray (author)

}}This article is about the political scientist. For other people with the same name, see Charles Murray.Charles Alan Murray is an United States libertarian political scientist, author, and columnist working as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC....
, and George F. Will.

See also


  • Irving Kristol
    Irving Kristol

    Irving Kristol has been dubbed the "godfather of Neoconservatism ." As the founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he has played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half-century....
  • Conservatism
    Conservatism

    Conservatism is a political and social term whose meaning has changed in different countries and time periods, but which usually indicates support for the status quo or the status quo ante....
  • National Affairs, Inc.
    National Affairs

    National Affairs, Inc. is a United States organization which published both The National Interest and The Public Interest. The organization was run by Irving Kristol, and featured board members such as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.S ambassador to the UN Jeane Kirkpatrick, and author Charles Murray ....


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