In 1994, my father wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal titled "Life Without Father." It dealt with the subject of the family and poverty and welfare–with my father drawing for his argument, as he so often did, on a combination of social science, common sense, history, and personal experience. In the course of the article, my father briefly discussed his father, Joseph Kristol–who, he wrote, "was thought by all our relatives and his fellow workers to be wise, and fair, and good. I thought so too."

If you haven't read Bill Kristol's eulogy for his father, you need to click that link and go read it now.