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.


Tom Wolfe

Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe

Column: Why Tom Wolfe is the most important writer of the twenty-first century

Hillary Clinton

How to Beat Hillary Clinton

Column: Remind the American people that she’s untrustworthy, unlikable, and extreme

Paul Ryan

The Ryan Revolution

Column: Paul Ryan’s impact on the GOP is only beginning

Mideast Israel Palestinians

The Obama Intifada

Column: How coddling Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas led to terrorism in Israel

Ronald Reagan

A Reagan Doctrine for the Twenty-First Century

Column: How to confront Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

The Coming Defeat of NATO

Column: How Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama will break the Atlantic alliance

Scott Walker

‘It’s a F—ing Bitch, Man’

Column: Why Republicans Hate Political Consultants

Hillary Rodham Clinton,

Time to Wet the Bed

Column: The Hillary campaign should start panicking

An Anti-American White House

Column: Barack Obama’s presidency has empowered the adversaries of the United States

Video Of Executions Inside Antique Theater - Palmyra

Obama’s Politicized Intelligence

Column: The White House spins—and ignores—its losing war in Iraq and Syria