Charles Krauthammer

Text of Krauthammer's lecture

The Irving Kristol Lecture is intended to illuminate central issues of public policy in contemporary America. The lecturer, selected by AEI's Council of Academic Advisers, is an eminent thinker who has made notable intellectual or practical contributions to improved public policy and social welfare.

The Irving Kristol Lecture is delivered at the AEI annual dinner in Washington.

The Irving Kristol Award replaces the Francis Boyer Award, AEI's highest annual award for the past twenty-five years. Named for a distinguished chief executive of SmithKline in the 1940s and 1950s, the Boyer Award was first conferred in 1977, on former president Gerald R. Ford. Boyer Award recipients have included prominent statesmen, intellectuals, jurists, educators, and executives--among them, in 1991, Irving Kristol.