Matthew Continetti

Early life and education

Continetti was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 24, 1981, the son of Cathy (née Finn) and Joseph F. Continetti. Continetti graduated from Columbia University in 2003. 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.

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. 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.

He has criticized Glenn Beck as "nonsense." He has argued the American media turned on Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign because they had blind allegiance to Barack Obama. He has criticized American academia as uniformly left-wing.

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)

References

References

1. (August 29, 2023). "Press Release: Matthew Continetti Named Director of Domestic Policy Studies at AEI".
2. Podhoretz, John. (2025-10-31). "So Long, Continetti".
3. "An Election Preview and the Emerging Antisemitism on the Right - Opinion: Potomac Watch - WSJ Podcasts".
4. [http://www.c-span.org/video/?284335-1/qa-matthew-continetti Q-and-a.org]
5. (2012-02-19). "Anne Kristol and Matthew Continetti". [[The New York Times]].
6. [https://www.nationalreview.com/author/matthew-continetti/ Matthew Continetti. National Review]
7. "Articles".
8. Richard Lowry, ''Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years'', Regnery Publishing, 2004, p. 343 [https://books.google.com/books?id=bKumwTZunZYC&dq=%22matthew+continetti%22&pg=PA343 Google Books]
9. "Lincoln Fellowship Alumni". The Claremont Institute.
10. [https://mobile.twitter.com/continetti/status/720347094158954496 Matthew Continetti on Twitter], April 13, 2016. "Fact-check: I converted to Judaism in 2011."
11. [https://archive.today/20130209120402/http://www.weeklystandard.com/author/matthew-continetti%23biography Weekly Standard biography]
12. [http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Continetti,%20Matthew Bloggingheads webpage]
13. John Nichols, ''The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism'', Verso Books, 2011 [https://books.google.com/books?id=LjxMmBVHt4UC&dq=%22matthew+continetti%22&pg=PT53 Google Books]
14. 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 [https://books.google.com/books?id=YQOj0ipHhWMC&dq=%22matthew+continetti%22&pg=PA166 Google Books]
15. [[Bruce E. Johansen]], ''Silenced!: Academic freedom, scientific inquiry, and the First Amendment under siege in America'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, p. 129 [https://books.google.com/books?id=R30X2E_kmn8C&dq=%22matthew+continetti%22&pg=PA129 Google Books]
16. (2017-10-27). "Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier". The New York Times.
17. "Заявление МИД России в связи с введением персональных санкций в отношении граждан США - Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации".