The Public Interest
| Editor | Adam Wolfson |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Irving Kristol |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Publisher | National Affairs, Inc. |
| Founder | Daniel Bell, Irving Kristol |
| Year founded | 1965 |
| First issue | Fall 1965 |
| Final issue — Number |
Spring 2005 159 |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | Washington DC |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0033-3557 |
The Public Interest (1965-2005) was a quarterly public policy journal founded by the New York intellectuals Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol in 1965. It was a leading neoconservative journal on political economy and culture, aimed at a readership of journalists, scholars and policy makers.
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 prominent writers and scholars including 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.
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