Bill Kristol | |
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![]() Kristol in 2011 | |
Chief of Staff to the Vice President | |
In office January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 | |
Vice President | Dan Quayle |
Preceded by | Craig Fuller |
Succeeded by | Roy Neel |
Personal details | |
Born | William Kristol December 23, 1952 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic (before 1980; 2020–present)[1] |
Other political affiliations | Republican (1980–2020) |
Spouse |
Susan Scheinberg (m. 1975) |
Children | 3 |
Parents |
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Relatives | Matthew Continetti (son-in-law) |
Education | Harvard University (BA, PhD) |
William Kristol (/ˈkrɪstəl/; born December 23, 1952) is an American neoconservative writer.[2] A frequent commentator on several networks including CNN, he was the founder and editor-at-large[3] of the political magazine The Weekly Standard. Kristol is now editor-at-large of the center-right publication The Bulwark and has been the host of Conversations with Bill Kristol, an interview web program, since 2014.[4][5]
Kristol played a leading role in the defeat of the Clinton health care plan of 1993,[6] and for advocating the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[7][8] He has been associated with a number of conservative think tanks. He was chairman of the New Citizenship Project from 1997 to 2005. In 1997, he co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with Robert Kagan. He is a member of the board of trustees for the free-market Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a director of the Foreign Policy Initiative. He is also one of the three board members of Keep America Safe, a national-security think tank co-founded by Liz Cheney and Debra Burlingame, and serves on the boards of the Emergency Committee for Israel and of the Susan B. Anthony List (as of 2010).[9]
Kristol is a critic of former president Donald Trump,[10] a supporter of the Never Trump movement, and a founder and director of Defending Democracy Together, an advocacy organization responsible for such projects as Republicans for the Rule of Law and the Republican Accountability Project.
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