William Kristol

William Kristol, Lecturer in Public Policy, is an analyst for the Fox News Channel and has been editor of the Weekly Standard since its founding in 1995. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future (from 1993 to 1995), where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory. He served as chief of staff to former Vice President Dan Quayle during the first Bush Administration, and, from 1985 to 1988, was chief of staff to former Secretary of Education William Bennett under former President Ronald Reagan. He is the co-editor of several books, including The Neoconservative Imagination, Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield and Present Dangers, and in 2003, he co-authored (with Lawrence F. Kaplan) The War Over Iraq. Kristol received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1973 and his Ph.D. from the University in 1979. He will be teaching a course titled “Can America Be Governed?”