Matthew Joseph Continetti (born June 24, 1981) is an American journalist and Director of Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and as of 2025, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to its Potomac Watch podcast.
Early life and education Continetti was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 24, 1981,Q-and-a.org the son of Cathy (née Finn) and Joseph F. Continetti. Continetti graduated from Columbia University in 2003.Matthew Continetti | National Review While in college, he wrote for the Columbia Spectator, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's magazine, CAMPUS, and Columbia Political Review. In summer 2002, he did an internship for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's student journalism program, Collegiate Network, at National Review, where he was a research assistant to its editor, Rich Lowry.Richard Lowry, Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years, Regnery Publishing, 2004, p. 343 Google Books
Career Following college, he joined The Weekly Standard as an editorial assistant, and later became associate editor. In 2011, he was a Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow. He is now a contributing editor to National Review.Matthew Continetti on Twitter, April 13, 2016. "Fact-check: I converted to Judaism in 2011." He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Financial Times. He has also been an on-camera contributor to Bloggingheads.tv.Bloggingheads webpage
He has criticized Glenn Beck as "nonsense."John Nichols, The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism, Verso Books, 2011 Google Books He has argued the American media turned on Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign because they had blind allegiance to Barack Obama.Michael Graham, That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom: Team Obama's Assault on Tea-Party, Talk-Radio Americans, Regnery Publishing, 2010, p. 166 Google Books He has criticized American academia as uniformly left-wing.Bruce E. Johansen, Silenced!: Academic freedom, scientific inquiry, and the First Amendment under siege in America, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, p. 129 Google Books
From October 2015 to May 2016, the Washington Free Beacon, under Continetti's stewardship, hired Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on "multiple candidates" during the 2016 presidential election, including Donald Trump. The Free Beacon stopped funding his research when Trump was selected as the Republican Party nominee.
Personal life Continetti lives in Arlington County, Virginia. He is married to Anne Elizabeth Kristol, the daughter of William Kristol, Vice President Dan Quayle's Chief of Staff. Continetti converted to Judaism in 2011, prior to his marriage to Kristol. In May 2023, the Russian Foreign Ministry sanctioned Continetti and barred him from entry, along with 500 other Americans.
Bibliography 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) The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism, Basic Books (2022)
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The Weekly Standard | Matthew Continetti (articles from The Weekly Standard, now kept by Washington Examiner) Matthew Continetti | National Review (bio & articles from National Review) Matthew Continetti (@continetti) · Twitter