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Fred Barnes

Disciplines:
journalism
television
conservation/conservatism
weekly standard

Summary

American political journalist — co-founder of The Weekly Standard — long-time Fox News contributor and The McLaughlin Group panelist — who covered the Reagan and Bush administrations.

Core Contribution

Co-created The Weekly Standard as the intellectual flagship of neoconservatism — Barnes and William Kristol's Weekly Standard was the most influential conservative magazine of the 1990s–2000s and the institutional home of the Iraq War intellectual movement.

Notable Works & Achievements

Rebel-in-Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush

Historical Influences

William F. Buckley Jr. Irving Kristol

Intellectual Lineage

Washington D.C. University of Virginia The New Republic The Weekly Standard

Contemporaries & Peers

William Kristol John Podhoretz David Brooks

Minds Influenced

Neoconservative journalism

Intellectual Posterity

The Weekly Standard

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