More on The Neoconservative Persuasion   

THE SCRAPBOOK is pleased to note two fine reviews of the new collection of Irving Kristol’s essays, The Neoconservative Persuasion, reviewed in our pages a month ago by James Ceaser.  

In the New Criterion, one of our favorite monthlies, James Piereson explains how these essays show that Kristol as a thinker, “though much appreciated, was nevertheless much underestimated.” He concludes by judging Kristol “the most influential political essayist of the last century, a worthy American rival even to the best British essayists of the pre- and postwar eras, and one of the few writers of our time whose works are likely to be consulted a century hence for their insights into the permanent problems of politics.”  