Curriculum Vitae

WILLIAM KRISTOL

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Harvard University, in political science, 1979.

A.B., Harvard University, magna cum laude in government, 1973.

EMPLOYMENT

Editor, The Weekly Standard, June 1995-present.

Visiting Lecturer, Government Department, Harvard, Spring Semester 2003, Academic Year 2005-2006, Spring Semester 2007 and 2008.

Chairman, Project for the Republican Future, November 1993-May 1995.

Director, The Bradley Project on the 90s, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, January- November 1993.

Chief of Staff to the Vice President, The White House, May 1989-January 1993; Assistant to the Vice President for Domestic Policy, January 1989-May 1989.

Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, December 1985- July 1988. Special Assistant to the Secretary, July 1985-December 1985.

Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1983- 1985 (on leave 1985-1987).

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1979-1983. Instructor, 1978-1979.

TEACHING FIELDS

Political philosophy, public policy, American government.

SELECTED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Articles

“Women’s Liberation: The Relevance of Tocqueville,” in Ken Masugi, ed., Alexis de Tocqueville Observes the New American Order (University Press of America, 1991).

“The Problem of the Separation of Powers: Federalist 47-51,” in Charles R. Kesler, ed., Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (The Free Press, 1987).

“The Friends and Enemies of Democratic Capitalism,” in Fred E. Baumann, ed., Democratic Capitalism? (University Press of Virginia, 1986).

“Liberty, Equality, Honor,” Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 2, no. 1, Autumn, 1984.

Review Essays

“The Heavenly City of Post-Constitutional Theory,” The University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 51, no. 1, Winter 1984.

“On the Neoliberal Frontier,” Regulation, May/June 1983.

“Conservative Statecraft,” The Public Interest, no. 73, Fall 1983.

“Defending Democratic Capitalism,” The Public Interest, no. 68, Summer 1982.

“Constitutional Law Today,” The Public Interest, no. 62, Winter 1981.

“Speaking Intelligently About Policy Analysis,” The Public Interest, no. 59, Spring 1980.

Co-Authored Book The War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission (Encounter Books, 2003), By Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol.

Co-Edited Books

The Future is Now: America Confronts the New Genetics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), edited by William Kristol and Eric Cohen.

Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), edited by E. J. Dionne, Jr. and William Kristol.

Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy (Encounter Books, 2000), edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol.

Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), edited by Mark Blitz and William Kristol.

The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (The AEI Press, 1995), edited by Christopher DeMuth and William Kristol.

07/28/08