Featured Authors
A curated guide to writers who most shaped The Weekly Standard across its 1995–2018 run — from founding editors and senior writers to contributing voices who helped define the magazine's character.
Co-founder and editor, 1995–2018. The magazine's defining editorial voice.
Co-founder and executive editor. Political reporter and senior analyst.
Founding editor and cultural critic. Film, theater, and political commentary.
Early staff writer. Cultural and social analysis before his move to the Times.
Senior writer and later editor-in-chief. National security and intelligence reporting.
Senior editor and signature long-form writer. Books, culture, and American life.
Senior editor. Cultural and political analysis with a European perspective.
Senior writer known for deeply reported, literary long-form profiles and dispatches.
Senior writer and editor. Demographics, domestic policy, and cultural criticism.
Contributing columnist. Pulitzer Prize–winning voice on foreign policy and American power.
Contributing editor. Military historian and foreign policy analyst.
Contributing editor. Canadian-American conservative intellectual and speechwriter.
Contributing editor and satirist. Political humor in the tradition of the great American comic writers.
Staff writer and editor. Domestic politics and the transformation of the American right.
Contributing editor. Neoconservative foreign policy theorist and historian of American power.
Contributing editor. Social policy, bioethics, and the moral foundations of conservatism.
Staff writer and co-founder of The Daily Caller. Politics and media criticism.
Books & Arts editor. Poetry, theology, and the intersection of faith and culture.
Staff writer and editor. Political commentary, media, and digital journalism.
Contributing editor and former CIA officer. Iran, the Middle East, and political Islam.