“[My father, Irving Kristol] was generally very suspicious of doctrines, ideologies, dogmatism, and he thought neoconservatism was a hopeful way to look at America and to look at the world — but [it was] a persuasion, not a dogma,” says William Kristol, writer of the foreword to The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009 by Irving Kristol.