29 Facts About Bill Kristol

William Kristol is an American neoconservative writer.

Bill Kristol is editor-at-large of the center-right publication The Bulwark and is among the editors of its Substack publication that bears the same name.

Bill Kristol played a leading role in the defeat of the Clinton health care plan of 1993, as well as for advocating the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Bill Kristol has been associated with a number of conservative think tanks.

Bill Kristol was chairman of the New Citizenship Project from 1997 to 2005.

Bill Kristol 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.

Bill Kristol is 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.

Bill Kristol is a critic of president Donald Trump, 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.

William Bill Kristol was born on December 23,1952, in New York City into a Jewish family, the son of Irving Bill Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb.

Bill Kristol received a bachelor's degree at Harvard University and a Ph.

In 1976, Bill Kristol worked for Daniel Patrick Moynihan's United States Senate campaign, serving as deputy issues director during the Democratic primary.

Bill Kristol served as chairman of the Project for the Republican Future from 1993 to 1994, and as the director of the Bradley Project at the Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee in 1993.

Bill Kristol served as a foreign policy advisor for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign.

Bill Kristol wrote a weekly opinion column for The New York Times from January 7,2008, to January 26,2009.

For ten years, Bill Kristol was a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday and often contributed to the nightly program Special Report with Bret Baier.

Since the summer of 2014, Kristol has hosted an online interview program, Conversations with Bill Kristol, featuring guests from academic and public life.

Conversations with Bill Kristol is an American interview program hosted by political analyst and commentator Bill Kristol.

Bill Kristol was a founder of The Weekly Standard and is a founding director of Defending Democracy Together.

Bill Kristol has been a significant voice in American politics for decades.

Bill Kristol was key to the defeat of the Clinton health care plan of 1993.

Bill Kristol wrote an op-ed strongly criticizing United States secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, saying he "breezily dodged responsibility" for planning mistakes made in the Iraq War, including insufficient troop levels.

Bill Kristol was one of many conservatives to publicly oppose Bush's second US Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers.

Bill Kristol was an ardent promoter of Sarah Palin, advocating for her selection as the running mate of John McCain in the 2008 United States presidential election months before McCain chose her.

Bill Kristol vehemently opposed the nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for president in 2016.

In January 2019, Bill Kristol criticized the Trump administration's planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria and from Afghanistan.

In March 2020, Bill Kristol endorsed former US vice president Joe Biden for President of the United States.

Bill Kristol is founding director of Republican Voters Against Trump, a project of Defending Democracy Together, launched in May 2020.

Bill Kristol did an interview with Jewish Insider in 2021 where he said that he identifies as more of a former Republican.

Since 1975, Bill Kristol has been married to Susan Scheinberg, whom he met while they were both students at Harvard.