Josh Hammer

Senior Editor-at-Large, Syndicated Columnist, and Host, "The Josh Hammer Show", Newsweek

Josh Hammer is senior editor-at-large of Newsweek, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, counsel and policy advisor for the Internet Accountability Project, a syndicated columnist through Creators and a contributing editor for Anchoring Truths. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal and cultural issues, Josh is a constitutional attorney by training. He hosts "The Josh Hammer Show," a Newsweek podcast, and co-hosts the Edmund Burke Foundation's "NatCon Squad" podcast.

An outspoken conservative, Josh opines on conservative intellectual trends, contemporary domestic and foreign policy debates, constitutional and legal issues, and the intersection of law, politics and culture. He has been published by many leading outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York PostDaily Mail, NewsweekNational AffairsAmerican AffairsThe New Criterion, The National InterestNational ReviewFirst ThingsCity JournalPublic Discourse, Law & LibertyTablet MagazineDeseret MagazineCompact Magazine, Chronicles Magazine, The SpectatorThe American MindThe American Conservative, The European ConservativeAmerican GreatnessAmerican CompassTownhallThe Daily WireThe Daily Signal, The Daily Caller, The Epoch TimesFortuneFox BusinessThe Jerusalem PostThe Times of IsraelThe ForwardJewish Telegraphic Agency and the Jewish Journal. He has also had legal scholarship published by the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and the University of St. Thomas Law Journal

Josh is a college campus speaker through Young America's Foundation and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and a law school campus speaker through the Federalist Society. Prior to Newsweek and The Daily Wire, where he was an editor, Josh worked at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and clerked for Judge James C. Ho on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Josh has also served as a John Marshall Fellow with the Claremont Institute and as a Fellow with the James Wilson Institute.

Josh graduated from Duke University, where he majored in economics, and from the University of Chicago Law School. He lives in Florida, but remains an active member of the State Bar of Texas.

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