Jacob Heilbrunn

Jacob Heilbrunn is Editor of The National Interest and the author of They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons (2008).

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The Hawks Ascending

Russia’s war on Ukraine has opened up a new front in Washington’s foreign policy elite, mobilizing veterans of the cold war and Iraq. Especially on the right, a fierce fight is in prospect.

March 14, 2022

National Conservatism: Retrofitting Trump’s GOP

Usually, intellectual movements precede the rise of political ones, but in this case, Trump’s camp followers are reverse-engineering an intellectual doctrine to match Trump’s basic instincts.

July 18, 2019

‘The Weekly Standard’ & Failed Regime Change

Kristol, Podhoretz, Boot, and others belong to a second generation of neocons that never drifted away from the Democrats toward the Republican Party. Many seem simply politically adrift, like Russian exiles stranded in Paris after the Bolshevik revolution pining for the ancien régime.

December 18, 2018