Free Beacon Matthew Continetti

Matthew Continetti is director of Domestic Policy Studies and the inaugural Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity at the American Enterprise Institute. The founding editor of the Washington Free Beacon, he is also the author of The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine (Doubleday, 2006); The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star (Sentinel, 2009); and The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism (Basic, 2022). His articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, and Wall Street Journal.


Christopher Hitchens

Hitch-21

Column: If Christopher Hitchens were alive today

President Biden Delivers Remarks At Summit For Democracy

How Democracies Perish

Column: A failure of American nerve

Supreme Court

The Sense of an Ending

Column: Is America—and the world—prepared for what comes next?

Biden Xi

The Vaporware Summit

Column: President Biden rewards a hostile China

Thus Spake Omarova

Column: No pivot to the center for President Biden

Glenn Youngkin

The Virginia Model

Column: Glenn Youngkin's victory and the Republican future

Kenosha riots Jan 6 riots

The Two Countercultures

Column: Who will speak for ordinary Americans?

Glenn Youngkin

The Politics of Parental Revolt

Column: And the need for a conservative education agenda

Joe Biden

The Leadership Deficit Doom Loop

Column: American decline is not fated—unless our leaders make it so

The Next Supply Side Agenda

Column: Give the public more tools to restore normalcy