Reihan Salam
Reihan Salam | |
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| Born | 29 December 1979 |
| Occupation(s) | Author, Journalist |
Reihan Morshed Salam (pronounced /ˈraɪhɑːn səˈlɑːm/; born December 29, 1979)[1] is an American conservative political writer and journalist. He writes a weekly column for The Daily Beast, is a policy advisor at e21: Economic Policies for the 21st Century, and is a former fellow at the New America Foundation. He has written for numerous publications, including the National Review, Foreign Policy, Slate, The Spectator, The Weekly Standard, and The New York Sun.[2] He previously worked as a producer for NBC News, a junior editor at The New York Times, and a reporter for The New Republic. He co-authored Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream[3] with Ross Douthat and blogs regularly at The American Scene. In June 2009 he began writing a personal blog at National Review Online, titled The Agenda.[4]
Early life
Salam was born in Brooklyn. His parents were Bangladeshi immigrants who had arrived in New York in 1976; his father was an accountant. He attended Stuyvesant High School (where he was head of the debate team) and matriculated at Cornell University (where he was designated a Telluride Scholar by the Telluride Association) before transferring to Harvard [citation needed]. As an undergraduate Salam was a member of the Signet Society and interned at The New Republic.[5]
Salam is a Muslim. He has also remarked that "I am not an expert on Islam" and "I wouldn’t say I’m a very religiously observant person".[6]
Salam's parents worked in the World Trade Center in the 1980s. Salam has written, "Some of my fondest memories of growing up involve visiting them at work, and watching the 4th of July fireworks display from my dad’s office window." Those memories later fed into his personal horror at the September 11th attacks.[6]
Like many New Yorkers, Salam does not drive.[7]
Political views
Salam is a conservative. He has stated that he believes in a 'Pax Americana' foreign policy with deference to people such as Aaron Friedberg, Peter Feaver, and Fred Kagan, although that "doesn't mean that I agree with PNAC on every issue". He believes that family structure drives social welfare in the United States and that entrepreneurial growth comes from a more free market-driven "open" economy.[8] Elsewhere Salam has described himself as "a fairly conventional neocon, though more in the vein of Jeff Gedmin than that of my more combative friend Mike Goldfarb."[9]
He opposes what he deems as common conservative "shibboleths". His personal goal is to "pump ideas into the bloodstream" of American conservatism.[8]
References
- ^ http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/16598
- ^ "Articles by Reihan Salam". New American Foundation. Retrieved 2008-07-07. [dead link]
- ^ Douthat, Ross Gregory (2008). Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385519435.
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- ^ "New Star Rising", Razib Khan profiles Reihan Salam at The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
- ^ a b Brief Note Re: the Cordoba House Controversy
- ^ http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2008/10/30/reihan-salam-plan-gop/politics/
- ^ a b What's on your mind? BloggingHeads.tv {Reihan Salam and Eric Alterman}. Recorded March 13, 2009. Posted March 16, 2009.
- ^ Salam, Reihan (24 June 2009). "Inner Neocons". The American Scene. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
External links
- Profile of Salam at TheAmericanScene.com
- Profile of Salam at The New America Foundation site
- Slate articles by Salam
- Video debates featuring Reihan Salam on Bloggingheads.tv
- Reihan Salam at IMDb
- "They're Young, They're Bright, They Tilt to the Right" A conversation with Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam from n+1