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.


Donald Trump Vladimir Putin

No 'Grand Bargain' with Putin

Column: The risks to American deterrence aren't worth it

Clinton Obama Pelosi Sanders Ocasio-Cortez Waters

Who Killed the Center-Left?

Column: The politicians supportive of illegal immigration

All Politics Is Trump

Column: The only issue on the ballot this November? The president.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chinese President Xi Jinping

The Real Summit

Column: It took place in Beijing

Kim Jong-Un

What Kim Is

Column: Summits won't change the nature of the North Korean tyranny

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former President Barack Obama

The World As It Wasn't

Column: Barack Obama's revealing reaction to Donald Trump's victory

Un Xi Trump

The China Problem

Column: North Korea is just a part of the challenge confronting Trump and the United States

Tom Wolfe

Jonathan Swift in a White Suit

Column: Tom Wolfe's campaign against intellectual idiocy

Kanye and co

The Coalition for Cultural Freedom

Column: Kanye West, Jordan Peterson, and the revolt against political correctness