Bill Kristol Steps Down as Editor of Weekly Standard

William Kristol in Washington D.C. on October 3, 2011. Image by Getty Images

By Dave Goldiner December 13, 2016

Bill Kristol, the Jewish neoconservative who famously led opposition to Donald Trump, has stepped down from his post as editor of the Weekly Standard after 21 years.

Kristol will continue to write for the magazine as an editor at large.

Kristol helped found the Weekly Standard and built it into the preeminent intellectual voice of neoconservatism and provided a platform for many of the movement’s top voices, including his father, Irving Kristol.

He clashed with Trump throughout the 2016 election season and led a #neverTrump group of conservative intellectuals who refused to back the mogul in the general election.

Trump responded by branding Kristol a “loser” and the Trump-aligned Breitbart News called him a “renegade Jew” for failing to back the GOP nominee.

Dave Goldiner is the Forward’s director of digital media. Dave is a veteran journalist who has spent two decades working at newspapers in the United States and Africa. A native New Yorker, Goldiner wrote for the New York Daily News, where he covered some of the biggest stories of our time, including the attacks of September 11, along with thousands of stories of hope and heartbreak. He also studied and worked in Southern Africa and has written for publications in South Africa and Zimbabwe. He holds masters degrees in journalism and public administration from Columbia University. Dave can be reached at [email protected], or follow him on Twitter @davegoldiner

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