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.


I Don’t Love Spock

Column: President Obama’s favorite Star Trek character is an appeasing arrogant jerk

Benjamin Netanyahu

Why Bibi's Speech Matters

Column: It exposes the Iran deal as indefensible—and Obama's politics as bankrupt

The Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and His Royal Highness King Salman of Saudi Arabia Clinton Foundation

Column: It’s not just that Hillary’s corrupt. It’s that she’s also clueless.

Don’t Authorize Obama’s War

Column: Why his request for war authorization is a trap

Hillary Clinton

The Granny State

Column: Grandma Clinton does not know best

Raging Bill

Column: Martin Scorsese fights the Clinton mafia

Tom Steyer

Draft Tom Steyer

Column: What the World Needs Now is a Straight White Male Billionaire Democrat

Fight Them Over There

Column: Kill the terrorists before they reach the West

Blasphemy for Me, But Not for Thee

Column: Do liberals actually believe in the right to offend?

Hollywood Barbarian

Column: The Romantic genius of John Milius