 the public interest (1965-2005) was a quarterly public policy journal founded by the new york intellectuals daniel bell and irving kristol in 1965.irving kristol, "forty good years", public interest, spring 2005, issue 159, pp 5-11 is kristol's retrospective in the final issue.gillian peele, "american conservatism in historical perspective", in crisis of conservatism? the republican party, the conservative movement, & american politics after bush, gillian peele, joel d. aberbach (eds.), oxford: oxford university press, 2011, p. 26 it was a leading neoconservative journal on political economy and culture, aimed at a readership of journalists, scholars and policy makers. ==overview== its varied content included the performance of the great society, the fate of social security, the character of generation x, crime and punishment, love and courtship, the culture wars, the tax wars, the state of the underclass, and the salaries of the overclass. it eschewed foreign and defense policy. the magazine published such prominent writers and scholars as seymour martin lipset, james q. wilson, peter drucker, charles murray, james s. coleman, anthony downs, aaron wildavsky, mancur olson, jr., michael novak, samuel p. huntington, gertrude himmelfarb, martin feldstein, leon kass, irwin m. stelzer, daniel p. moynihan, nathan glazer, glenn c. loury, stephan thernstrom, abigail thernstrom, charles krauthammer, francis fukuyama and [[david brooks (journalist
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