If there is a place where the rivers of the right converge , it appears to be the office of William Kristol , a Straussian editor and advocate , whose mother -LRB- Gertrude Himmelfarb -RRB- , father -LRB- Irving Kristol -RRB- , philosophy -LRB- neoconservatism -RRB- and magazine -LRB- The Weekly Standard -RRB- all earned separate entries .