Mona Charen
Mona Charen is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington D.C. and a syndicated columnist and political analyst. A graduate of Bernard College, Columbia University and the George Washington University Law School, she began her career at National Review magazine. She joined the White House staff in 1984, first serving as Nancy Reagan’s speechwriter and later as Associate Director of the Office of Public Liaison. Later she joined the Public Affairs office and helped to craft President Reagan’s communications strategy. Subsequently, she worked as a speechwriter for the presidential campaign of Congressman Jack Kemp.
She launched a syndicated column in 1987, one of the most widely read columns in the industry and which is featured in more than 150 newspapers and websites. She spent six years as a commentator on CNNs Capital Gang and Capital Gang Sunday, and has served as a judge of the Pulitzer Prizes. She has been a fellow at the Hudson Institute and the Jewish Policy Center.
Ms. Charen is the author of two bestsellers: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First (2003); and Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help (and the Rest of Us) (2005). She is also author of Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense (2018).
In 2010, she received the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism. She is a frequent guest on television and radio public affairs programs and is married with three sons.
