but i do identify with a lot of .he early neo-conservatives socialied to apply science and politics in a way that led them to conservatism. they tried the empirical. they tried to be concrete. they tried to be constructive. so they were a little less theoretical and a little more engaged with politics than earlier generations of conservatives. and i am drawn to that. i think it matters that politics the practical. i think it matters that they answer the particular concerns and needs of the country at the moment. and it's the policy oriented. in that respect, i certainly look up to irving kristol as a great intellectual model. a lot of people of my generation do. i don't think that distinguishes conservatives anymore. i don't think that distinction means that much for younger people. they really just learned from those two strands together. and they have combined them in their own thinking and their own practice. younger conservatives are not divided along the same lines. there's not even quite the same division between libertarian and conservative set these to be. although that does ex