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.


Chinese president Xi Jinping

America Can't Face China Alone

Column: Facing the China threat requires new institutions and renewed alliances

Donald Trump

The Viral Center

Column: The coronavirus and the new American middle

New York City Hospital Adds New Protocols And Triage To Address Coronavirus

Coronavirus and the Common Good

Column: The enduring relevance of a tricky concept

Corona Conservatism

Column: The coronavirus accelerates a generational and ideological transition on the right

social distancing

Coronavirus Tests America's Social Capacity

Column: Is American society ready for the coronavirus pandemic?

Bernie Sanders

The Fight Against Socialism Isn't Over

Column: Bernie Sanders isn't a relic. He's a preview of things to come.

Joe Biden

Joe Biden: The Comeback Gramps

Column: How a flight to safety helped the former vice president

China

The First Postmodern Pandemic

Column: The only predictable fallout of coronavirus? Partisanship.

Bloomberg Trump Sanders

Battle of the Boroughs

Column: And the fall of the political establishment