A Very Short History of Neoconservatism

by Eric Alterman
for MediaTransparency.org

POSTED APRIL 5, 2005 --

Within the past month or so the political/cultural group known as the Neoconservatives (Neocons) have lost two of their central magazines. The first, The Public Interest, a journal of domestic affairs edited by Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer, announced that it would be folding. Almost simultaneously 10 members of the editorial board of The National Interest, a foreign policy journal also founded by Kristol, resigned in protest over the 'realist' direction taken by the magazine under its new owners at the Nixon Center.

But save your tears for the Neocons, because they can afford to lose a magazine or two. Neoconservatives have never lacked for publications from which to pontificate. In fact, for much of the movement's three and a half decades observers have quipped that it has enjoyed more magazines than members.