Irving Kristol
<p><b >Irving Kristol</b> (January 22, 1920 – September 18, 2009) was an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-conservatism" title="Neo-conservatism" class="mw-redirect" >neo-conservatism</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol#cite_note-1" >[1]</a></sup> As the founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half-century;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol#cite_note-2" >[2]</a></sup> after his death he was described by <i ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph" >The Daily Telegraph</a></i> as being "perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the 20th century."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol#cite_note-3" >[3]</a></sup></p>