William Kristol, Editor of The Weekly Standard, to Deliver Hanify-Howland Lecture

WORCESTER, Mass. – William Kristol, editor of the influential Washington-based political magazine, The Weekly Standard, will deliver the 40th annual Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture on Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross. The event, free and open to the public, will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

Washington insiders give Kristol a fair amount of the credit (or the blame) for the new American foreign policy doctrine articulated by President Bush after the attack of Sept. 11. Kristol will suggest how Sept. 11 may have initiated a new era in American politics and foreign policy. His lecture will focus on what comes next, what the Bush administration intends to do, and draw out some of the implications of the new world we’re living in, at home and abroad, politically and culturally.

Widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading political analysts and commentators, Kristol regularly appears on "Fox News Sunday" and Fox News Channel. As an advocate for a strong American foreign policy, he has pushed the foreign policy debate forward since Sept. 11 and continues to drive the conversation as co-author of The New York Times bestseller The War Over Iraq (Encounter Books, 2003). He has most recently edited the well-received anthology The Weekly Standard, A Reader: 1995-2005 (HarperCollins).

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

The annual Hanify-Howland lecture honors the late Edward F. Hanify, a 1904 graduate of Holy Cross and a Massachusetts Superior Court justice for 15 years, who died in 1954. The series was started by Hanify’s friend, the late Weston Howland of Milton, Mass., board chairman of Warwick Mills, Inc., who died in 1976.

Since 1965, the Hanify-Howland lecture series has brought to the Holy Cross campus a series of distinguished speakers on public affairs who have exemplified in their own work the spirit of public service that the series was established to encourage. They include Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity; Robert M. Hayes, founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless; Leon R. Kass, former Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics; Christopher J. Matthews (Holy Cross Class of 1967), MSNBC "Hardball" anchor; the Honorable Clarence Thomas (Class of 1971), associate justice of the Supreme Court; the late Paul E. Tsongas, former senator of Massachusetts, and Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve System.