The University of Texas at Austin

Event: American Politics Post 9/11

Speaker(s): William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard

Date: October 3, 2006

Length: 69 minutes

Event Series: Dean's Office Presents

Description: William Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard, a Washington-based political magazine, which he began in 1995, and he is chairman of the Project for the New American Century, a non-profit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership.

Dr. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped configure the strategy that led to the 1994 Republican congressional victory. He served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the first Bush Administration. Before working in Washington, he served on the faculty of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government from 1983 to 1985 and the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1983. Dr. Kristol has published a number of articles and essays concerning constitutional law, political philosophy, and public policy, and has coedited several books including Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary and The Neoconservative Imagination. He coauthored the best selling book The War Over Iraq. He appears frequently on Fox News Channel as a leading political analyst. Dr. Kristol received his A.B. in 1973 and Ph.D. in 1979 from Harvard University.

Introduction by LBJ School Dean James B. Steinberg.

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