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Mugged by Reality? Or Respectful of Common Sense? - AEI

A conservative, to paraphrase and slightly alter Irving Kristol's saying, is a liberal who has been mugged by reality — especially by a reality ...

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugge... - Goodreads

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

Irving Kristol - Wikipedia

... conservative as "a liberal who has been mugged by reality". These concepts lie at the core of neo-conservative philosophy to this day. While ...

Mugged by Reality - Tablet Magazine

For Americans, and also for Jews, Kristol famously joked that a neoconservative was a liberal who got mugged by reality, and the trajectory ...

'A liberal mugged by reality' | The Spectator

Irving Kristol didn't coin the term 'neoconservative' but he was the first person to run with it. Although it was originally intended as an ...

“Mugged by Reality”: The Neoconservative Turn - VoegelinView

[45] The reference “mugged by reality” is from Irving Kristol's quote, “[a neoconservative] is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. A ...

The Left Is Being Mugged by Reality, Again - The New York Times

In one area after another, the left is being mugged by reality, to borrow Irving Kristol's famous phrase.

What is your opinion of Irving Kristol's quip that a Neo-conservative ...

... conservative is “a liberal who has been mugged by reality”? All ... The more brutal form of the cliche is “A conservative is a liberal who's been ...

Science Proves a Conservative Really is a Liberal Mugged by Reality

The scientific “studies” purporting to prove that conservatives and liberals have different biological responses strike me as so dumb.

'I am one of those liberals who got mugged by reality': An Interview ...

We publish Gabriel Noah Brahm's fascinating interview with one of Israel's leading intellectuals and creative writers, Gadi Taub.

Neoconservatives Mugged by Reality a Second Time

Irving Kristol, the founder of The National Interest, once famously said that a neoconservative was a liberal who had been “mugged by reality.

A liberal thinker 'mugged by reality' | The National

A liberal thinker 'mugged by reality'. The godfather of neo-conservatism, this fiercely patriotic intellectual rejected the 1960s counterculture, arguing ...

Present at the Re-Creation | Foreign Affairs

A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality, as Irving Kristol once said, what is a neoconservative who gets mugged yet again? A realist.

MA Thesis/ Mugged By Reality Again?

So liberalism is an important aspect in the genesis of neoconservatism. To put it in Kristol's words: ”A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by ...

Lionel Barber on X: "Liberal mugged by reality! More to come" / X

NEW: CNN's Zakaria slams Dems for illegal immigration, 'lawfare' against Trump, and 'deeply illiberal' woke culture of censorship.

Remembering Irving Kristol - Tablet Magazine

... mugged by reality—Kristol's friend and City Journal editor-at-large Myron Magnet observed: “What he really meant, of course, was simply a ...

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. - X.com

"A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality." --Irving Kristol At the entryway to @AEI.

Liberal Hawks and Neoconservatives at the Turn of the Century

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

Mugged by reality - Victorville Daily Press

... a liberal who has been mugged by reality." His concepts about neoconservative philosophy, which came about because he rejected such things ...

Neoconservatism | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

... a liberal who had been mugged by reality. But here I am, only minutes into my talk, and I find that I cannot do without it, both to endorse its truth and to ...


Melanie Phillips

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Melanie Phillips is a British public commentator. She began her career writing for The Guardian and New Statesman. During the 1990s, she came to identify with ideas more associated with right-wing politics and the far-right and currently writes for The Times, The Jerusalem Post, and The Jewish Chronicle, covering political and social issues from a socially conservative perspective.