Global New Right Seminar | David Klion on the Legacy of Neoconservatism

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Global New Right Working Group for a seminar with David Klion on April 9th at 5:30 PM. David Klion will discuss a draft of the first section of an in-progress manuscript on the legacy of neoconservatism. “The Patriarchs” is an overview of the lives and careers of the first generation of neoconservative men (the women of that generation are covered in the second section, The Matriarchs). There is a particular emphasis in the chapter on the biographical and temperamental contrast between two crucial figures, Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, and how that contrast anticipates some of the present-day divisions between their literal and intellectual descendants. A.J. Bauer and Hannah Gurman will comment. This event will be hybrid.

David Klion is a columnist for The Nation, a contributing editor for Jewish Currents, and a contributor to various publications. He is working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism.

A.J. Bauer is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He is the author of  Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press. He holds a PhD in American Studies from NYU and is co-editor of News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures (Oxford, 2019).

Hannah Gurman teaches U.S. History and American Studies at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her forthcoming book, The Opportunists, traces the rise of the post-liberal movement and the reinvention of reactionary politics in the twenty-first century (The New Press, September 2026). She is also the author of The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2012); editor of Hearts and Minds: A People’s History of Counterinsurgency (The New Press, 2013) and co-editor (with Kaeten Mistry) of Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy (Columbia University Press, 2020). Her writing has also appeared in popular outlets, including The Nation, Washington Post, Dissent, Jacobin, and The Baffler.