ABSTRACT
The themes that led to the label of "neoconservatism" emerge remarkably early in the Public Interest's (PI's) pages, though it should be pointed out that Dan never accepted the term and Pat Moynihan had to distance himself from it even before he decided to run for the Senate from New York. The author was always indifferent to the label; only Irving fully embraced it. In any event, as early as Winter 1971, the issue of pornography is the subject of a lead-off symposium of articles. Leon Kass' first article on the problems of science and medicine and their intrusion into age-old traditional expectations and practices appeared as early as Winter 1972. Welfare and its consequences formed the subject of scores of articles, as did the theme of the family, yes the traditional family, and its importance to society. In later decades, this morphs into perhaps too many articles on how social programs may inadvertently undermine the family.
