Author Bios

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY is an American political satirist and the author of novels including God Is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wet Work, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir, and, most recently, But Enough about You. He was chief speechwriter for George H. W. Bush during his vice presidency and was founder and editor-in-chief of Forbes Life magazine. He is the recipient of the 2002 Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence. In 2004 he was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

SONNY BUNCH is managing editor of the Washington Free Beacon. Prior to joining the Beacon, he served as a staff writer at the Washington Times, an assistant editor at the Weekly Standard, and an editorial assistant at Roll Call. Bunch’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Reason, the New Atlantis, Policy Review, and elsewhere. A 2004 graduate of the University of Virginia, Bunch lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

DAVID BURGE is a hobbyist writer and hot rodder who blogs and tweets as Iowahawk (@iowahawkblog). He is a frequent contributor to Garage Magazine, and his articles have appeared in the Weekly Standard, Middle East Quarterly, the European Business Journal, and Readings in American Government. Native to Chicago, he remains, despite his better judgment, a committed Cubs fan.

CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West.

ANDREW FERGUSON is senior editor at the Weekly Standard. Before joining the Standard at its founding in 1995, he was a senior writer at the Washingtonian magazine, He has been a columnist for Fortune, Bloomberg News, TV Guide, Commentary, and Forbes FYI and a contributing editor to Time magazine. He is the author of Fools’ Names, Fools’ Faces; Land of Lincoln; and Crazy U.

JONAH GOLDBERG is a syndicated columnist and author. Goldberg is known for his contributions on politics and culture to National Review Online, of which he is editor-at-large. He is the author of Liberal Fascism (2008), a number-one New York Times best seller, and most recently, The Tyranny of Clichés, also a national best seller. He was the founding editor of National Review Online and is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a regular columnist for USA Today and the Los Angeles Times and is a Fox News Contributor (and frequent member of the Special Report “All Star” panel). He was ranked as one of the Atlantic magazine’s fifty most influential commentators in America. He also watches too much TV.

MICHAEL GRAHAM is a talk radio host, political commentator, former GOP political consultant, and sometime stand-up comedian. He proudly notes that he must be the only person on earth to open for Bill Maher, Chris Rock, and Sarah Palin. Graham’s radio career has taken him up the East Coast from Charleston to Washington, before spending time in Boston and, most recently, Atlanta. The author of four books, including the first major-published book on the Tea Party movement—That’s No Angry Mob, That’s My Mom!–Graham is also a regular Monday guest on NewsTalk’s The Right Hook with George Hook in Ireland.

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY is a senior editor at the Federalist. She was previously a columnist for Christianity Today and contributor to GetReligion.org. Her writing on religion, economics, and baseball has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, Federal Times, Radio & Records, and Modern Reformation. Originally from Colorado, she lives in Washington with her husband and two children. She enjoys combing flea markets to improve her vinyl record collection and believes that the designated hitter rule is the result of a communist plot.

RITA KOGANZON is a graduate student in government at Harvard University. She has written for the New Atlantis, Policy Review, National Affairs, and other publications.

MATT LABASH is a senior writer at the Weekly Standard. His collection Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys was published in 2010 by Simon and Schuster. He lives in Owings, Maryland.

JONATHAN V. LAST is a senior writer at the Weekly Standard and author of What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster. His writings have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Claremont Review of Books, First Things, and elsewhere.

JAMES LILEKS is a columnist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, a columnist for National Review, and author of Tiny Lies, Falling up the Stairs, and Graveyard Special. He has lived in Minneapolis since 1976, with a four-year tour of duty in Washington, DC. He hosted talk radio in the 1980s and ’90s, and curates a number of blogs and websites, including the Institute of Official Cheer, home of the infamous Gallery of Regrettable Food.

ROB LONG is a writer and television producer in Hollywood, California. As a writer and coexecutive producer for the long-running television program Cheers, he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations in 1992 and 1993. He went on to have a string of cancelled television series. His current uncancelled series, Sullivan & Son, airs on TBS. In addition to his television work, Long is a contributing editor for National Review and a weekly columnist for the English-language Abu Dhabi daily, the National. His weekly public radio commentary, Martini Shot, is broadcast nationally and on KCRW.com. His two books, Conversations with My Agent and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke were recently reissued by Bloomsbury. In May 2010 he cofounded a new center-right commentary site, Ricochet.

LARRY MILLER is an actor, comedian, voice artist, podcaster, and columnist. He has appeared in over one hundred film and television shows, including Seinfeld and 10 Things I Hate about You, as well as several characters in Christopher Guest’s mockumentary films. His other credits include Pretty Woman, The Nutty Professor, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Law & Order, and Boston Legal. In addition, he’s a contributing humorist to the Huffington Post and the Weekly Standard, as well as the author of the best-selling book, Spoiled Rotten America. Miller hosts the podcast This Week with Larry Miller on Carolla Digital, where he unleashes a barrage of humor about the absurdities of daily life. P.J. O’Rourke is an American political satirist, journalist, and author. O’Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, writes a weekly column for the Daily Beast, is a regular correspondent for the Weekly Standard, and is a frequent panelist on National Public Radio’s game show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! He is the author of seventeen books, including the New York Times best sellers Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance. His latest book, The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way… And It Wasn’t My Fault… And I’ll Never Do It Again, was released in January 2014. According to a 60 Minutes profile, he is also the most quoted living man in The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations.

JOE QUEENAN writes the “Moving Targets” column for the Wall Street Journal. Author of nine books, his work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, GQ, Forbes, Spy, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian. His memoir, Closing Time, appeared on the New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2009. A native of Philadelphia, he now lives in Tarrytown, New York.

CHRISTINE ROSEN is senior editor of the New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society, where she writes about the social impact of technology, bioethics, and the history of genetics. She is the author of Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement and My Fundamentalist Education. Since 1999 Ms. Rosen has also been an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Her essays and reviews have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, the Washington Post, the American Historical Review, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

ANDREW STILES is the digital managing editor for the Washington Free Beacon and a contributor to the Editor’s Blog, where he specializes in political and cultural analysis. His work has been featured in the Washington Post and denounced in countless other publications. Previously, he covered Congress as a reporter for National Review. He lives in Washington, DC.