Biography
Mr. Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, where he has covered national politics and policy for more than 30 years. He is also a columnist for the Washington Post and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
He has previously been a columnist for Time and for Bloomberg Opinion.
He is the author of a book about the sanctity of life in American politics and a monograph about Japanese industrial policy.
In 2014, Ponnuru contributed to and (with Yuval Levin) edited the book Room to Grow: Conservative Reforms for a Limited Government and a Thriving Middle Class. New York Times columnist David Brooks called the book “the most coherent and compelling policy agenda the American right has produced this century.”
Ponnuru grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, and was graduated from Princeton University. He now lives in the Washington, D.C., area with his wife and children.
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