William Kristol

Cofounder, Weekly Standard

William Kristol is founding director of Defending Democracy Together, an organization dedicated to defending America’s liberal democratic norms, principles, and institutions. The founder of the Weekly Standard, he is now editor at large of The Bulwark. Having served in senior positions in the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, Kristol understands government from the inside; as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, he has studied American politics and society from the outside. Kristol frequently appears on major television talk shows, and he is the host of the highly regarded video series and podcast Conversations with Bill Kristol.