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.

1
William Kristol 1995–2018

Co-founder and editor, 1995–2018. The magazine's defining editorial voice.

2
Fred Barnes 1995–2018

Co-founder and executive editor. Political reporter and senior analyst.

3
John Podhoretz 1995–2018

Founding editor and cultural critic. Film, theater, and political commentary.

4
David Brooks 1995–2003

Early staff writer. Cultural and social analysis before his move to the Times.

5
Stephen F. Hayes 2000–2018

Senior writer and later editor-in-chief. National security and intelligence reporting.

6
Andrew Ferguson 1995–2018

Senior editor and signature long-form writer. Books, culture, and American life.

7

Senior editor. Cultural and political analysis with a European perspective.

8
Matt Labash 1995–2018

Senior writer known for deeply reported, literary long-form profiles and dispatches.

9
Jonathan V. Last 1997–2018

Senior writer and editor. Demographics, domestic policy, and cultural criticism.

10

Contributing columnist. Pulitzer Prize–winning voice on foreign policy and American power.

11
Max Boot 1999–2018

Contributing editor. Military historian and foreign policy analyst.

12
David Frum 1995–2018

Contributing editor. Canadian-American conservative intellectual and speechwriter.

13
P.J. O'Rourke 1996–2018

Contributing editor and satirist. Political humor in the tradition of the great American comic writers.

14

Staff writer and editor. Domestic politics and the transformation of the American right.

15
Robert Kagan 1995–2016

Contributing editor. Neoconservative foreign policy theorist and historian of American power.

16
Yuval Levin 2006–2018

Contributing editor. Social policy, bioethics, and the moral foundations of conservatism.

17
Tucker Carlson 1995–2011

Staff writer and co-founder of The Daily Caller. Politics and media criticism.

18
Joseph Bottum 1999–2018

Books & Arts editor. Poetry, theology, and the intersection of faith and culture.

19

Staff writer and editor. Political commentary, media, and digital journalism.

20

Contributing editor and former CIA officer. Iran, the Middle East, and political Islam.