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5 unusual facts about The Weekly Standard


Daniel Wattenberg

Wattenberg went on to work as a writer and editor for such magazines as The Weekly Standard and John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s George.

Faraz Anwar

One of his projects is a collaboration with Imran Raza, which combines classic rock with such Eastern musical influences as "South Asian flutes and classical Sufi singing"; according to The Weekly Standard, it was President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan who brought the two together.

First Things

Bottum, who had come to the magazine from The Weekly Standard, served through October 2010, when James Nuechterlein returned from retirement to become interim editor.

Orwell Award

1997: Gertrude Himmelfarb for "Professor Narcissus: In Today's Academy, Everything Is Personal," June 2, 1997, issue of The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard

In June, 2009, a report circulated that a sale of the publication to Philip Anschutz was imminent, with Murdoch's position being that, having purchased The Wall Street Journal in 2007, his interest in the smaller publication had been less forceful.


Irwin Stelzer

who is the U.S. economic and business columnist for the Sunday Times, the Courier-Mail, and a contributing editor of the Weekly Standard.

Samira Ibrahim

In early March 2013, Ibrahim came under criticism after Samuel Tadros, writing in The Weekly Standard, accused her of posting anti-Semitic and anti-American statements on her Twitter account.

Tory socialism

It was in keeping with this that David Gelernter wrote a long essay in The Weekly Standard extolling Disraeli as the founder of modern neo-conservatism.


see also

Stephen Hayes

Stephen F. Hayes (born 1974), American senior writer at The Weekly Standard