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.


Accept No Substitutes

Column: Only American ground troops can defeat the Islamic State

The Case for Panic

Column: Incompetent government + corrupt elite = disaster

The Golden Bowl

Column: Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative, and our supine media

This Is Not What Democracy Looks Like

Column: Stop foreign governments from buying American think tanks

Silent Coup

Column: Harry Reid’s plan to hand America to liberal billionaires

Paul Ryan

Ryan Talks

Column: The Wisconsin Republican on the GOP consultant class, negative campaigns, and what keeps him up at night

Remilitarize the World Police

Column: It’s the first step in reestablishing a credible deterrent

1,461 Days of Summer

Column: Obama’s endless second-term vacation

The Most Interesting Candidate in the World

Column: Jeff Bell and the Republican future

Free Gaza

Column: Rid it of Hamas