Irving Kristol, who founded The National Interest in 1985—the magazine I had the honor of editing for several years—has passed away.

He created a forum for debate on foreign policy—particularly on first assumptions—and then let it take off from there.

I always found that first essay he did for TNI—“Foreign Policy in an Age of Ideology”—to be a useful and even twenty-five years later prescient warning (minus the references to the USSR).

The conversation goes on . . .

Posted by Nikolas Gvosdev at 09/21/2009 01:37:06 PM |