2007 Fall Briefing with William Kristol

Few public intellectuals in recent decades have made as many importantand varied contributions as William Kristol.

He served as chief of staff to Education Secretary Bill Bennett during the Reagan administration, and then again to Vice President Dan Quayle during the first Bush administration.

As head of the Project for the Republican Future, he led the way in defeating the Clinton administration's government-laden health care plan (a.k.a. "HillaryCare") when many on the right thought the cause was lost. He then was a key strategist in enormous conservative victories in 1994.

A year later, in 1995, he was the founding editor of The Weekly Standard, which overnight became a remarkably influential voice. It's a job he still holds.

And among television's "talking heads" (the term is used affectionately), he is one of the most incisive, as witness his regular appearances on "FOX News Sunday."

A Harvard-trained political scientist, Dr. Kristol's career surely would have taken a more constrained route if, as a newly minted academic, he had accepted an offer to teach at the University of Minnesota. With all due respect to the "U," the nation has been well-served by his branching out.

Bill Kristol keynoted American Experiment's 1996 Annual Dinner. Almost a dozen years later, we will be honored to welcome him back to keynote our 2007 Fall Briefing, when he talks about "The New World."

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