Speaker Biographies
September 8, 2005
David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times and a commentator on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly. Mr. Brooks is the author of Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (Simon & Schuster, 2001) and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (Simon & Schuster, 2001). Prior to The Weekly Standard he worked at the Wall Street Journal for nine years. His last position at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa, and European affairs. He is also a frequent analyst on NPR’s All Things Considered and the Diane Rehm Show. His articles have appeared in the The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, the Washington Post, the TLS, Commentary, The Public Interest, and many other magazines.
Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow at AEI. An expert in Middle East affairs, he has focused since 9/11 on Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, as well as on terrorism and intelligence. He is the author of Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran (1997) and The Islamic Paradox: Shiite Clerics, Sunni Fundamentalists, and the Coming of Arab Democracy (AEI Press, 2004). He is a contributing editor for The Weekly Standard and a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, as well as a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. Mr. Gerecht formerly held positions as the director of the Middle East Initiative for the Project for the New American Century and as a Middle Eastern specialist in the Central Intelligence Agency.
William Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard. Widely recognized as one of the nation's leading political analysts and commentators, Mr. Kristol regularly appears on Fox News Sunday and on the Fox News Channel. Before starting The Weekly Standard in 1995, Mr. 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 Ronald Reagan. Before coming to Washington in 1985, Mr. Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Kristol recently coauthored the New York Times bestseller The War Over Iraq: America's Mission and Saddam's Tyranny (Encounter Books, 2003) and is the editor of The Weekly Standard: A Reader.
Theologian, author, and former U.S. ambassador, Michael Novak currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy at AEI. He is the 1994 recipient of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Mr. Novak has written twenty-six influential books on the philosophy and theology of culture, focusing especially on the essential elements of a free society. His writings have appeared in every major Western language, and in Bengali, Korean, and Japanese. His masterpiece The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism has been reprinted in Latin America and was published underground in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, China, and Hungary. For his work and influence, he has received dozens of prestigious awards. Mr. Novak's latest articles and descriptions of his major writings can be found at www.michaelnovak.net.
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