Editing Neoconservatism (section)

=== Public figures ===

[[File:Robert Kagan Fot Mariusz Kubik 02.jpg|thumb|[[Robert Kagan]]]]
[[File:David Frum, Senior Editor, The Atlantic, and author, Why Romney Lost speaking at Policy Exchange (14174385791).jpg|thumb|[[David Frum]] speaking to Policy Exchange in 2013]]
* [[Fred Barnes (journalist)|Fred Barnes]] – co-founder and former executive editor of ''[[The Weekly Standard]]''<ref>[[Paul Starr]], [https://prospect.org/article/%E2%80%98weekly-standard%E2%80%99-and-eclipse-center-right The 'Weekly Standard' and the Eclipse of the Center-Right] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328214905/https://prospect.org/article/%E2%80%98weekly-standard%E2%80%99-and-eclipse-center-right |date=28 March 2019 }}, ''The American Prospect'' (5 December 2018): "Founded in 1995 by the neoconservatives Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes..."</ref>
* [[Max Boot]] – author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian;<ref name="nyt"/> formerly, publicly distanced himself and renounced Neoconservatism <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Boot |first1=Max |title=What the Neocons Got Wrong |journal=Foreign Affairs |date=10 March 2023 |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iraq/what-neocons-got-wrong |access-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[David Brooks (commentator)|David Brooks]] – columnist <ref>{{cite news|work=Lobelog|title=Yes, Virginia, David Brooks is a Neo-Con|url=https://lobelog.com/yes-virginia-david-brooks-is-a-neo-con/|access-date=15 July 2020|archive-date=5 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805051726/https://lobelog.com/yes-virginia-david-brooks-is-a-neo-con/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=Center for American Progress|title=Neoconservatism on the Decline|url=https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/general/news/2013/08/15/72338/neoconservatism-on-the-decline/|access-date=15 July 2020|archive-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111212548/https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/general/news/2013/08/15/72338/neoconservatism-on-the-decline/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=Foreign Policy|title=When Zombie Neoconservatives Attack|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/17/when-zombie-neoconservatives-attack/|access-date=15 July 2020|archive-date=26 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126051631/https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/17/when-zombie-neoconservatives-attack/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Midge Decter]] – journalist, author † <ref name="Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons"/>
[[File:Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, San Francisco, 2013.jpg|thumb|[[Lulu Schwartz]]]]
* [[Lulu Schwartz]] - American journalist, author and columnist who held a senior policy analyst role at [[Foundation for Defense of Democracies]] (FDD), a neo-conservative think tank based in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last1=Janiskee |editor-first1=Brian P. |editor-last2=Masugi |editor-first2=Ken |title=The California Republic: Institutions, Statesmanship, and Policies |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |year=2004 |isbn=0-7425-3250-X |location=Lanham, Maryland |page=368}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Abrams |first=Nathan |title=Norman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons |publisher=The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-4411-0968-2 |location=New York, NY |page=1 |chapter=Introduction}}</ref> 
* [[Niall Ferguson]]<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/20/niall-ferguson-interview-civilization | title=Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners don't understand how vulnerable freedom is' | newspaper=The Observer | date=20 February 2011 | last1=Skidelsky | first1=William }}</ref>
* [[Steve Forbes]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/08/neocons-outcast-trump.html | title=The Neocons Have Gone from GOP Thought-Leaders to Outcasts | date=21 August 2016 }}</ref>
* [[David Frum]] – journalist, Republican speechwriter and columnist<ref>{{cite book |last=Mann |first=James |author-link=James Mann (writer) |title=Rise of the Vulcans |publisher=Penguin Books |edition=1st paperback |date=September 2004 |page=[https://archive.org/details/riseofvulcanshis00mann/page/318 318] |isbn=978-0-14-303489-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/riseofvulcanshis00mann/page/318 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/08/16/the-reinvention-of-david-frum/|title=The Reinvention of David Frum|date=17 August 2012|work=Antiwar.com|access-date=16 June 2019|archive-date=17 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217152205/https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/08/16/the-reinvention-of-david-frum/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/01/no_author/neocon-war-criminal-tells-cnn-viewers-to-trust-media-because-it-lies/|title=Neocon War Criminal Tells CNN Viewers to Trust Media Because It Lies|date=2 January 2018|work=LewRockwell.com|access-date=16 June 2019|archive-date=2 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202211310/https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/01/no_author/neocon-war-criminal-tells-cnn-viewers-to-trust-media-because-it-lies/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Reuel Marc Gerecht]] – writer, political analyst and senior fellow at the [[Foundation for Defense of Democracies]]<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Politico]]|title=GOP foreign policy elites flock to Clinton|date=6 July 2016|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/national-security-clinton-trump-225137|access-date=18 June 2019|archive-date=7 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107062002/https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/national-security-clinton-trump-225137|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Jonah Goldberg]] – founding editor of ''[[The Dispatch]]''
* [[David Horowitz]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/may/30/socialsciences.highereducation|title=Interview: neo-conservative, David Horowitz|last=Campbell|first=Duncan|date=2001-05-30|work=The Guardian|access-date=2018-12-07|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* [[Bruce P. Jackson]] – activist, former U.S. military intelligence officer<ref name="Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons"/>
* [[Donald Kagan]] – Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University †.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2 April 2019|title=Up from Brownsville: A Podcast with Donald Kagan|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brownsville-and-beyond/|access-date=23 September 2021|website=National Review|language=en-US|archive-date=7 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107234755/https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brownsville-and-beyond/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Italie|first=Hillel|title=Donald Kagan, leading neo-conservative historian, dead at 89|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/donald-kagan-leading-neo-conservative-historian-dead-at-89/|access-date=23 September 2021|website=www.timesofisrael.com|language=en-US|archive-date=17 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817213255/https://www.timesofisrael.com/donald-kagan-leading-neo-conservative-historian-dead-at-89/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Frederick Kagan]] – historian, resident scholar at the [[American Enterprise Institute]]<ref>Jeanne Morefield, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=QdDQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA73 Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123161642/https://books.google.com/books?id=QdDQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA73&hl=en |date=23 January 2023 }}'', Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 73</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WCtpaW6UaGEC&pg=PT41|title=The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics: The Modest Republic|editor=Michael P. Federici|editor2=Mark T. Mitchell|editor3=Richard M. Gamble|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|date=2013|isbn=978-1-137-09341-7|access-date=17 May 2020|archive-date=23 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123161649/https://books.google.com/books?id=WCtpaW6UaGEC&pg=PT41|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSy1COVFdakC&pg=PA154 |title=The Strange Death of Republican America: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party, Sydney Blumenthal, Union Square Press, 2008 |access-date=12 June 2016 |isbn=978-1-4027-5789-1 |last1=Blumenthal |first1=Sidney |year=2008 |publisher=Sterling Publishing Company |archive-date=23 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123161643/https://books.google.com/books?id=OSy1COVFdakC&pg=PA154 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Robert Kagan]] – senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, scholar of U.S. foreign policy, founder of the ''[[The Politic|Yale Political Monthly]]'', adviser to Republican political campaigns and one of 25 members of an advisory board to [[Hillary Clinton]] at the State Department (Kagan calls himself a "liberal interventionist" rather than "neoconservative")<ref name=nytimes-kagan>{{citation |title=Events in Iraq Open Door for Interventionist Revival, Historian Says |first=Jason |last=Horowitz |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=15 June 2014 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/us/politics/historians-critique-of-obama-foreign-policy-is-brought-alive-by-events-in-iraq.html |access-date=7 February 2017 |archive-date=4 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204055432/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/us/politics/historians-critique-of-obama-foreign-policy-is-brought-alive-by-events-in-iraq.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/27/usa |title=A neocon by any other name |last=Beaumont |first=Peter |date=26 April 2008 |work=The Guardian |access-date=12 December 2016 |archive-date=13 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213124735/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/27/usa |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Charles Krauthammer]] – Pulitzer Prize winner, columnist and psychiatrist † <ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-krauthammer-pulitzer-prize-winning-columnist-and-intellectual-provocateur-dies-at-68/2018/06/21/b71ee41a-759e-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and intellectual provocateur, dies at 68] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622063517/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-krauthammer-pulitzer-prize-winning-columnist-and-intellectual-provocateur-dies-at-68/2018/06/21/b71ee41a-759e-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html |date=22 June 2018 }}, ''Washington Post'' (21 June 2018): "championed the muscular foreign policy of neoconservatism..."</ref>
* [[Irving Kristol]] – publisher, journalist and columnist † <ref>{{cite web |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/09/23/was-irving-kristol-a-neoconservative/ |title=Was Irving Kristol a Neoconservative? |publisher=Foreign Policy |date=23 September 2009 |access-date=12 June 2016 |archive-date=17 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117031334/https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/09/23/was-irving-kristol-a-neoconservative/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Eli Lake]] – journalist and columnist<ref name="ntrump">{{cite news|work=[[The National Interest]]|title=Are the Neocons Finally with Trump?|date=17 October 2017|url=https://nationalinterest.org/feature/after-the-neocons-finally-trump-22767|access-date=14 April 2019|archive-date=23 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223083858/https://nationalinterest.org/feature/after-the-neocons-finally-trump-22767|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Michael Ledeen]] – historian, foreign policy analyst, scholar at the [[American Enterprise Institute]]<ref name="Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons"/>
* [[Clifford May]] – founder and president of the [[Foundation for Defense of Democracies]]<ref>{{cite news|title=The most influential US conservatives: 81–100|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1435460/The-most-influential-US-conservatives-81-100.html|date=29 October 2007|access-date=21 July 2009|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|archive-date=28 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128095311/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1435460/The-most-influential-US-conservatives-81-100.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Joshua Muravchik]] - political scholar<ref>{{cite news |last1=Muravchik |first1=Joshua |title=The Future is Neocon |url=https://nationalinterest.org/greatdebate/neocons-realists/future-neocon-3803?nopaging=1 |access-date=17 July 2023 |date=1 September 2008}}</ref>
* [[Douglas Murray (author)|Douglas Murray]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Taheri |first1=Amir|author-link=Amir Taheri|title=Neoconservatism: Why We Need It |date=20 January 2006 |url=https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/amir-taheri/interviews/neoconservatism-why-we-need-it|newspaper=[[Asharq Al-Awsat]]|access-date=3 February 2020}}</ref>
* [[Michael Pillsbury]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/30/trump-china-xi-jinping-g20-michael-pillsbury-1034610 | title=The China hawk who captured Trump's 'very, very large brain' | website=[[Politico]] | date=30 November 2018 }}</ref>
* [[Daniel Pipes]]<ref>{{cite news |url =http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?/pm/content/2006/s1603043.htm |title =US led coalition no longer responsible for Iraq: Daniel Pipes |publisher =[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |last =Colvin |first =Mark |date =March 28, 2006 |access-date =2018-12-03 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025700/http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?%2Fpm%2Fcontent%2F2006%2Fs1603043.htm |archive-date =2016-03-04 |url-status =dead }}</ref>
* [[Richard Pipes]]<ref>{{cite magazine|first = Eyal|last = Press|title =    Neocon man: Daniel Pipes has made his name inveighing against an academy overrun by political extremists but he is nothing if not extreme in his own views.|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1367/is_200405/ai_n6382769|magazine = The Nation|date = May 2004|access-date =August 17, 2007|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20071113071644/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1367/is_200405/ai_n6382769 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = November 13, 2007}}</ref>
* [[Danielle Pletka]] – American Enterprise Institute vice president<ref>Jacob Heilbrunn, ''They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons'' (Anchor Books, 2009), pp. 224-25: "Danielle Pletka ... a leading neocon"</ref>
* [[John Podhoretz]] – editor of ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Podhoretz – Commentary Magazine |url=https://www.commentary.org/author/john-podhoretz/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Norman Podhoretz]] – editor-in-chief of ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]''<ref>Nathan Abrams, ''Norman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons'' (Bloomsbury, 2011).</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/nyregion/norman-podhoretz-still-picks-fights-and-drops-names.html Norman Podhoretz Still Picks Fights and Drops Names] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205213846/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/nyregion/norman-podhoretz-still-picks-fights-and-drops-names.html |date=5 December 2020 }}, ''New York Times'' (17 March 2017): "became a shaper of the neoconservative movement".</ref>
*[[Yuval Levin]] – founding editor of ''[[National Affairs]]'' (2009–present) and director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the [[American Enterprise Institute]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yuval Levin|url=https://www.aei.org/profile/yuval-levin/|access-date=23 September 2021|website=American Enterprise Institute - AEI|language=en-US|archive-date=11 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111064354/https://www.aei.org/profile/yuval-levin/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Michael Rubin (historian)|Michael Rubin]] – resident scholar at the [[American Enterprise Institute]]<ref>Michael Rubin, [http://www.aei.org/publication/why-neoconservatism-was-and-is-right/ Why Neoconservatism Was and Is Right] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208071407/https://www.aei.org/publication/why-neoconservatism-was-and-is-right/ |date=8 February 2022 }} (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 2010).</ref>
* [[Gary Schmitt]] – resident scholar at the [[American Enterprise Institute]]<ref>John Davis, ''Presidential Policies and the Road to the Second Iraq War: From Forty One to Forty Three'' (Ashgate, 2006), p. 1: "neoconservative Gary Schmitt"</ref><ref>[https://www.economist.com/united-states/2007/04/19/sidelined-by-reality Sidelined by reality] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201218170709/https://www.economist.com/united-states/2007/04/19/sidelined-by-reality |date=18 December 2020 }}, ''The Economist'' (19 April 2007): " Gary Schmitt, a fellow neocon, complained of Mr Feith..."</ref>
[[File:Ben Shapiro (27944654676).jpg|thumb|[[Ben Shapiro]] speaking at the 2016 [[Politicon]] at the [[Pasadena Convention Center]] in [[Pasadena]], [[California]]]]
* [[Ben Shapiro]] – political commentator, public speaker, author, lawyer, founder and editor emeritus of [[The Daily Wire]].<ref>{{cite journal|first1=Aaron|last1=Hyzen|first2=Hilde Van den|last2=Bulck|title=Conspiracies, Ideological Entrepreneurs, and Digital Popular Culture|url=https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4092|journal=Media and Communication|date=13 September 2021|issn=2183-2439|pages=179–188|volume=9|issue=3|doi=10.17645/mac.v9i3.4092 |doi-access=free |hdl=10067/1809590151162165141|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Boyd D.|last1=Cathey|title=The Vanishing Tradition |chapter=9. The Unwanted Southern Conservatives|chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501749872-011/html|publisher=Cornell University Press|date=7 September 2020|pages=122–133 |isbn=978-1-5017-4987-2|via=www.degruyter.com|doi=10.1515/9781501749872-011|s2cid=242919831 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Paul|last1=Gottfried|title=Revisions and Dissents |chapter=9. The European Union Elections, 2014|chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501757495-011/html|publisher=Cornell University Press|date=11 February 2021|pages=95–100 |isbn=978-1-5017-5749-5|via=www.degruyter.com|doi=10.1515/9781501757495-011}}</ref>
* [[Bret Stephens]] – journalist and columnist for ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Politico]]|date=30 April 2017|title=Who's Afraid of Bret Stephens?|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/30/whos-afraid-of-bret-stephens-215085|access-date=22 November 2019|archive-date=12 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212091245/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/30/whos-afraid-of-bret-stephens-215085|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Irwin Stelzer]] – economist and writer<ref>C. Bradley Thompson with Yaron Brook, ''Neoconservatism, An Obituary for an Idea'' (Taylor & Francis, 2010: Routledge 2016 ed.): "neoconservative economist Irwin Stelzer"</ref>
* [[Ruth Wisse]]<ref>{{cite news|first1=Michael|last1=Lerner|accessdate=2019-11-01|title=THE CONSCIENCE OF A NEOCONSERVATIVE|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1993/01/03/the-conscience-of-a-neoconservative/f72e260b-8275-49d9-8da5-4d2af29a748b/|newspaper=Washington Post|date=3 January 1993|issn=0190-8286|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first1=Benjamin|last1=Schreier|title=New York Intellectual/Neocon/Jewish; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Ruth Wisse|journal=Studies in American Jewish Literature|date= n.d. |issn=0271-9274|pages=97–108|volume=31|issue=1|doi=10.5325/studamerjewilite.31.1.0097|jstor=10.5325/studamerjewilite.31.1.0097|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Rabbi Levi|last1=Welton|accessdate=2019-11-01|title=The Road From Yiddish To Politics|date=June 24, 2019 |url=https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/interviews-and-profiles/the-road-from-yiddish-to-politics/2019/06/24/}}</ref>