Ben Weingarten is Editor at Large at RealClearInvestigations, a Senior Contributor at The Federalist, Columnist at Newsweek, and co-host of “The NatCon Squad” podcast.
He is the author of American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party (Bombardier Books, 2020).
In 2019, Ben was selected by The Fund for American Studies as a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow under which he wrote extensively on U.S.-China policy under the Trump administration.
Ben has also contributed to outlets including American Greatness, The American Mind, Breitbart, City Journal, The Claremont Review of Books, Conservative Review, Gatestone Institute, The Hill, Library of Law & Liberty, National Review, Newsmax, New York Post, PJ Media, RealClearPolitics, and Zero Hedge.
He has appeared as a guest on, among other programs, “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” “The Ingraham Angle,” “Jesse Watters Primetime,” “The Ben Shapiro Show,” “The Glenn Beck Program,” and frequently guest-hosts for the nationally syndicated “The Buck Sexton Show,” and “The Wilkow Majority.”
His work has been highlighted at, among other places, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, The Drudge Report, The Ezra Levant Show, Fox News Channel’s “Fox @ Night,” The Mark Levin Show, Mark Steyn Online, Powerline, The Savage Nation, Steve Deace Show, Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler, Townhall, War Room: Pandemic, Washington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, and elsewhere.
Ben is a Fellow of the Claremont Institute, where he was previously selected as a Publius Fellow.
He is a 2010 graduate of Columbia University where he majored in Economics-Political Science.
