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Institutional
Affiliations
Project
for the New American Century:
Co-Founder (with Robert Kagan), Co-Director (2)
Foundation
for Community and Faith Centered Enterprise:
Board of Trustees (5)
John
M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, Ashland University:
Board of Advisers (6)
American Enterprise Institute:
International Advisory Board of the New Atlantic Initiative (7)
George
Mason University:
Board of Visitors (8)
Foundation
for the Defense of Democracies: Board
of Advisers (9)
Manhattan
Institute:
Board of Trustees (10)
Shalem
Foundation: Board
of Trustees (8)
Committee
for the Liberation of Iraq: Advisory Board (11)
Ethics
and Public Policy Center: Board Member, Project on the Judiciary
(12)
Lynde
and Harry Bradley Foundation: Director of Project on the
‘90s, 1993-1994 (8)
Project
for the Republican Future: Chairman and Founder, 1990-1993
Harvard
College: Board of Overseers for the Committee to Visit the
John F. Kennedy School of Government (8)
Madison
Center for Educational Affairs (Formerly the Institute for Educational
Affairs): Fellow (17)
Federalist
Society: Regular contributor to the society’s “quasi-official
organ” the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
(17)
American Committee for Peace in Chechnya:
Member
Government
Service
Office
of the Vice President: Chief of Staff to Dan Quayle, 1989-1992
(2)
Office
of the Secretary of Education: Chief of Staff and Counselor
to the Secretary for William Bennett, 1985-1988 (8)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Govolution
(government IT service): Co-Chair, Advisory Board (4)
Sanford
C. Bernstein & Co., LLC (investments company, now part of
Alliance Capital): Former Member of Board of Directors (8)
Education
Harvard
University: A.B.
in Government, Magna Cum Laude (8)
Harvard University: Ph.D. in Political Science (8)
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Highlights
& Quotes
Kristol’s
political activities began at the ripe old age of 12, when he aided
Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s campaign for City Council president.
In 1968, while he was in high school, Kristol volunteered to work
on the campaign of Hubert Humphrey.
In
1972 he helped organize the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Sen.
Henry "Scoop" Jackson, the Washington Democrat around whom many
neoconservatives organized in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (Because
of his extremely close ties to the defense industry, the ultra-hawkish
Jackson was dubbed the “senator from Boeing.”) (14)
In
the mid-1970s, Kristol switched to the Republican Party along with
many other neoconservatives. After working on the staff of then-Secretary
of Education William
Bennett in the early 1980s, Kristol ran the unsuccessful 1988
U.S. Senate campaign of Alan Keyes in Maryland. (13) While working
as Vice President Dan Quayle’s chief of staff he earned the
moniker “Quayle’s Brain.”
In
the 1990s, Kristol founded a number of successful initiatives that
helped make him a key inside-the-beltway pundit. Using money from
Rupert Murdoch,
Kristol established (along with fellow neoconservative scion, John
Podhoretz) The
Weekly Standard, which is today considered a must-read for anyone
trying to divine the course of Bush administration policies; in
1997 he founded (with Robert
Kagan) the Project
for the New America Century; and earlier in the decade, he began
the Project for the Republican Future, an organization that was
credited with helping shape the strategy that produced the 1994
Republican congressional victory. In 2000, the Washington Post’s
Howard Kurtz described Kristol as having “become part of Washington’s
circulatory system, this half-pol, half-pundit, full-throated advocate
with the nice-guy image” who is “wired to nearly all
the Republican presidential candidates.” (14)
Kristol
is coauthor, with The New Republic’s Lawrence Kaplan, of the
2003 book The War over Iraq, in which the authors state that the
“wisdom of regime change, the merits of promoting democracy,
the desirability of American power and influence--these issues extend
well beyond Iraq. So we dare to hope that this work will prove useful
even after Baghdad is finally free"; he is coauthor, with Robert
Kagan, of a much-quoted 1997 Foreign Affairs article called
“Towards a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy,” in which the
authors argue that the United States should establish a “benevolent
hegemony;” and he edited, with Robert Kagan, Present Dangers:
Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy (Encounter Books)
2000.
In
2002 Media Bypass reported, “In what has been called ‘punditgate,’
conservative journalists Bill Kristol and Erwin Stelzer of The Weekly
Standard … have been exposed for accepting Enron largesse.
… Kristol, chief of staff to former Vice President Dan Quayle,
took $100,000 without disclosing the payments at the time. …
Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard who postures as an independent
journalist, got the money for serving on an Enron advisory board,
and, in the words of Stelzer, keeping Enron Chairman Ken Lay and
his team ‘up to date on general public policy trends.’”
(16)
Kristol
is the son of Irving
Kristol and Gertrude
Himmelfarb.
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