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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Public_Interest_logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/The_Public_Interest_logo.png/180px-The_Public_Interest_logo.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/The_Public_Interest_logo.png/270px-The_Public_Interest_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/The_Public_Interest_logo.png/360px-The_Public_Interest_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="1334" data-file-height="687" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data">Adam Wolfson</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Former editors</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Irving_Kristol" title="Irving Kristol">Irving Kristol</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Frequency</th><td class="infobox-data">Quarterly</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/National_Affairs" title="National Affairs">National Affairs, Inc.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Bell" title="Daniel Bell">Daniel Bell</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Irving_Kristol" title="Irving Kristol">Irving Kristol</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1965</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First issue</th><td class="infobox-data">Fall 1965</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Final issue<br />Number</th><td class="infobox-data">Spring 2005<br />159</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Based in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nationalaffairs.com/public_interest/issues/spring-2005">www<wbr />.nationalaffairs<wbr />.com<wbr />/public<wbr />_interest<wbr />/issues<wbr />/spring-2005</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0033-3557">0033-3557</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1642714">1642714</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><i><b>The Public Interest</b></i> (1965–2005) was a quarterly <a href="/wiki/Public_policy" title="Public policy">public policy</a> journal founded by <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Bell" title="Daniel Bell">Daniel Bell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Irving_Kristol" title="Irving Kristol">Irving Kristol</a>, members of the loose <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Intellectuals" class="mw-redirect" title="The New York Intellectuals">New York intellectuals</a> group, in 1965.<sup id="cite_ref-forty_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forty-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-peele_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peele-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was a leading <a href="/wiki/Neoconservatism" title="Neoconservatism">neoconservative</a> journal on political economy and culture, aimed at a readership of journalists, scholars and policy makers.<sup id="cite_ref-peele_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peele-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Public_Interest&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Its content included the performance of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Society" title="Great Society">Great Society</a>, the fate of <a href="/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States)" title="Social Security (United States)">social security</a>, the character of <a href="/wiki/Generation_X" title="Generation X">Generation X</a>, crime and punishment, love and courtship, the <a href="/wiki/Culture_wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Culture wars">culture wars</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tax_wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Tax wars">tax wars</a>, the state of the <a href="/wiki/Underclass" title="Underclass">underclass</a>, and the salaries of the <a href="/wiki/Overclass" title="Overclass">overclass</a>. It eschewed foreign and defense policy.<sup id="cite_ref-foreign_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foreign-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The magazine published prominent writers and scholars including <a href="/wiki/Seymour_Martin_Lipset" title="Seymour Martin Lipset">Seymour Martin Lipset</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Q._Wilson" title="James Q. Wilson">James Q. Wilson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Drucker" title="Peter Drucker">Peter Drucker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Murray_(political_scientist)" title="Charles Murray (political scientist)">Charles Murray</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Samuel_Coleman" title="James Samuel Coleman">James S. Coleman</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Downs" title="Anthony Downs">Anthony Downs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Wildavsky" title="Aaron Wildavsky">Aaron Wildavsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mancur_Olson,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Mancur Olson, Jr.">Mancur Olson, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Novak" title="Michael Novak">Michael Novak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington" title="Samuel P. Huntington">Samuel P. Huntington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Himmelfarb" title="Gertrude Himmelfarb">Gertrude Himmelfarb</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Feldstein" title="Martin Feldstein">Martin Feldstein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leon_Kass" title="Leon Kass">Leon Kass</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irwin_Stelzer" title="Irwin Stelzer">Irwin M. Stelzer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_P._Moynihan" class="mw-redirect" title="Daniel P. Moynihan">Daniel P. Moynihan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Glazer" title="Nathan Glazer">Nathan Glazer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glenn_C._Loury" class="mw-redirect" title="Glenn C. Loury">Glenn C. Loury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephan_Thernstrom" title="Stephan Thernstrom">Stephan Thernstrom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abigail_Thernstrom" title="Abigail Thernstrom">Abigail Thernstrom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer" title="Charles Krauthammer">Charles Krauthammer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Francis_Fukuyama" title="Francis Fukuyama">Francis Fukuyama</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Brooks_(journalist)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Brooks (journalist)">David Brooks</a>. </p><p>Editor Irving Kristol was the dominant personality, especially after Daniel Bell relocated to Harvard in 1969. Bell, troubled by what he perceived to be an excessively conservative slant, withdrew in 1973, and was replaced as co-editor by the sociologist Nathan Glazer. Kristol continued, and the magazine become known as the principal house organ of neoconservatism, a hostile label which Kristol embraced.<sup id="cite_ref-neocon_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-neocon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The magazine's sub-editors were considered apprentices, and were seeded into high journalism, academia, and government staff posts. Many policies advanced by the magazine were absorbed into the mainstream of public policy.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1988, the journal moved its offices from New York City to Washington, D.C.<sup id="cite_ref-Skinner_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Skinner-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With foundation support flagging, Kristol aging, and no obvious successor, <i>The Public Interest</i> published its final issue in the spring of 2005. Towards the end, its readership had declined significantly. Kristol wrote on the history of the journal in his article "Forty Good Years" in the final issue.<sup id="cite_ref-forty_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forty-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Public_Interest&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Affairs" title="National Affairs">National Affairs, Inc.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Lagerfeld" title="Steven Lagerfeld">Steven Lagerfeld</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Public_Interest&action=edit&section=3" 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