The essential neoconservative reader

The Essential Neoconservative Reader captures the drama and historical importance of neoconservatism's rise from 1965 to the present, by collecting influential essays by its most noted figures - among them Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Nathan Glazer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and James Q. Wilson. The word "neoconservative" was first used as a term of derision for disgruntled ex-liberals of the 1960s. Perhaps because of this, there has never been a

Central credo or organization unifying neoconservatism as a movement. With this collection, however, neoconservatism is cast in a new light, portrayed as a comprehensive outlook on economics, politics, society, and culture linked by common principles and a distinctive vision.

My Negro problem. and ours / Norman Podhoretz -- The Negro family : the case for national action / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- The campus crucible : student politics and the university / Nathan Glazer -- A letter to the young (and to their parents) (February 1975) / Midge Decter -- Government and the people / Aaron Wildavsky -- Speech before the United Nations in response to "Zionism is racism" / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- "Why virtue loses all her loveliness": some reflections on capitalism and "the free society" / Irving Kristol -- From The spirit of democratic capitalism / Michael Novak -- Moral sources of capitalism / George Gilder -- Dictatorships and double standards / Jeane Kirkpatrick -- The delegitimation of Israel / Ruth Wisse -- Human nature and social reform / Irving Kristol -- From To empower people : the role of mediating structures in public policy / Richard John Neuhaus & Peter Berger -- Affirmative action : a worldwide disaster / Thomas Sowell -- A conservative welfare state / Irving Kristol -- The rediscovery of character : private virtue and public policy / James Q. Wilson -- Pornography, obscenity, and the case for censorship / Irving Kristol -- Broken windows :…