The Bulwark (website)

The Bulwark is an American moderate conservative news and opinion website founded in 2018 by commentators Charlie Sykes and Bill Kristol.[1][2] Its publisher is Sarah Longwell.[3] While it launched as a news aggregator, it was revamped into a news and opinion site using key digital staffers from the defunct magazine The Weekly Standard.[4]

The Bulwark
Nameplate
Front page, December 21, 2020
Type of site
News and opinion website
Available inEnglish
OwnerDefending Democracy Together Institute
EditorCharlie Sykes, Bill Kristol
URLthebulwark.com
LaunchedDecember 2018 (2018-12)
Current statusOnline

History

Following the end of publication of The Weekly Standard in December 2018,[5] editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes said: "the murder of the Standard made it urgently necessary to create a home for rational, principled, fact-based center-right voices who were not cowed by Trumpism."[6] The site was created in December 2018 as a news aggregator as a project of the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a 501(c)(3) conservative advocacy group led in part by Weekly Standard co-founder William Kristol.[7] Several former editors and writers of The Weekly Standard soon joined the staff and within weeks of launch began publishing original news and opinion pieces. CNN reported in January 2019 that approximately $1 million had already been raised for the site, which was said to be adequate to keep the site running for one year but that additional funding was being sought.[4]

A podcast hosted by Sykes and executive editor Jonathan V. Last was launched on December 21, 2018.[8]

Ideology

Despite the initial editorial makeup of The Bulwark being largely from the coalition of neoconservatives and libertarians that wrote Weekly Standard, the website's intense opposition to the administration of Donald Trump over time brought it to a more centrist stance on balance, including liberal commentators alongside the more conventional conservatism that held sway in the Republican Party from the 1950s to the mid-2010s. It is opposed to populist expressions of conservatism and traditionalism, particularly as expressed by Trump-aligned politicians and pundits as well as earlier exponents of those ideologies such as Pat Buchanan and Samuel T. Francis.

See also

References
  1. Coppins, McKay (February 22, 2019). "Naming and Shaming the Pro-Trump Elite". The Atlantic. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  2. Darcy, Oliver; Business, CNN (January 4, 2019). "Former Weekly Standard staffers find new home at The Bulwark". CNN. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  3. Morrison, Patt (October 9, 2019). "How Never Trumpers can get the GOP to stand up for constitutional conservatism again". Los Angeles Times (editorial). Archived from the original on March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  4. Darcy, Oliver (January 4, 2019). "Former Weekly Standard staffers find new home at The Bulwark, a conservative site unafraid to take on Trump". CNN Business. Archived from the original on January 7, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
  5. Farhi, Paul (December 14, 2018). "The Weekly Standard, influential conservative magazine, will shutter". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 20, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  6. Rubin, Jennifer (January 8, 2019). "A bulwark against Trump and Trumpism". The Washington Post (editorial). Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  7. "Defending Democracy Together Institute (DDTI)". InfluenceWatch. Archived from the original on January 17, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  8. "The Bulwark Podcast". Defending Democracy Together Institute. Archived from the original on January 17, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.


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