Editor of The Weekly Standard to Speak at The University of Texas at Austin

EVENT: William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, will discuss “American Politics Post 9/11” in a lecture that is free and open to the public.

This event is being sponsored by the LBJ School and the School of Journalism.

WHEN: 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3.

WHERE: The Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School. (Maps of the University of Texas at Austin can be obtained at www.utexas.edu/maps/main).

BACKGROUND: 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 was 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 and the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published a number of articles and essays concerning constitutional law, political philosophy and public policy, and has co-edited several books including “Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary” and “The Neoconservative Imagination.” He co-authored the best-selling book “The War Over Iraq” and appears frequently on Fox News Channel as a leading political analyst.

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Contacts: Erin Geisler, (512) 475-8071,

egeisler@mail.utexas.edu

or

Brendan Lavy

(512) 232-4004

blavy@austin.utexas.edu