Bill Kristol

Not to be confused with Billy Crystal.

Bill Kristol
Kristol in 2011
Chief of Staff to the Vice President
In office
January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993
Vice PresidentDan Quayle
Preceded byCraig Fuller
Succeeded byRoy Neel
Personal details
Born
William Kristol

(1952-12-23) December 23, 1952 (age 71)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Political partyUnaffiliated (2021–present)[1][2]
Other political
affiliations		Republican (1980–2020)
Spouse
Susan Scheinberg
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(m. 1975)​
Children3
Parents
RelativesMatthew Continetti (son-in-law)
EducationHarvard University (BA, PhD)

William Kristol (/ˈkrɪstəl/; born December 23, 1952) is an American neoconservative writer.[3] A frequent commentator on several networks including CNN, he was the founder and editor-at-large[4] 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.[5][6]

Kristol played a leading role in the defeat of the Clinton health care plan of 1993,[7] as well as for advocating the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[8][9] 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).[10]

Kristol is a critic of former president Donald Trump,[11] 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.

  1. ^ @BillKristol (January 14, 2024). "I'm an ex-Republican. But if I were an Iowan, I'd be crossing back over to vote for Haley Monday" (Tweet) – via Twitter. [better source needed]
  2. ^ Deutch, Gabby (September 13, 2021). "Bill Kristol's evolution". Jewish Insider. Retrieved September 29, 2024. Virginia doesn't have party registration, so I always use that as a way of avoiding the 'What party are you now in' question.
  3. ^ *Bai, Matt (March 1, 2018). "In exile with Bill Kristol, the Republican resister-in-chief". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on August 27, 2021. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  4. ^ "A Note From Bill Kristol". Weekly Standard. December 12, 2016. Archived from the original on June 29, 2018. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  5. ^ "The Bulwark Masthead". The Bulwark. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Edsall, Thomas B. (January 18, 2007). "Happy Hours". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 23, 2009. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
  8. ^ Kristol, Bill; Kagan, Robert (January 21, 2002). "What to Do About Iraq". Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
  9. ^ Kristol, Bill (May 20, 2015). "William Kristol: We were right to fight in Iraq". USA Today. Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 6, 2019. We were right to invade Iraq in 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein...
  10. ^ "True North" (PDF). Susan B. Anthony List. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 16, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  11. ^ "Political commentator William Kristol talks Donald Trump on American Forum". Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2017.