The Public Interest
| Editor | Adam Wolfson |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Irving Kristol |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Publisher | National Affairs, Inc. |
| Founder | Daniel Bell Irving Kristol |
| Founded | 1965 |
| First issue | Fall 1965 |
| Final issue Number | Spring 2005 159 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Washington, D.C. |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0033-3557 |
| OCLC | 1642714 |
The Public Interest (1965–2005) was a quarterly public policy journal founded by Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol, members of the loose New York intellectuals group, in 1965. It was a leading neoconservative journal on political economy and culture, aimed at a readership of journalists, scholars and policy makers.