William Kristol is a political contributor for the FOX News Channel (FNC) and serves as a regular contributor to Special Report with Brit Hume, the highest rated political program on cable television.

Kristol serves as editor and publisher of the Washington, D.C.-based political magazine, The Weekly Standard.  Widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading political analysts and commentators, Kristol regularly appears on all the major television public affairs shows.

Kristol served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bush administration and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Ronald Reagan.  Before coming to Washington in 1985, Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Before starting The Weekly Standard in 1995, Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory.