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Ramesh Ponnuru

Visiting Fellow

American Enterprise Institute

A senior editor for National Review, where he has covered national politics and public policy for 18 years, Ponnuru is also a columnist for Bloomberg View. A prolific writer, he is the author of a monograph about Japanese industrial policy and a book about American politics and the sanctity of human life. At AEI, Ponnuru examines the future of conservatism, with particular attention to health care, economic policy, and constitutionalism.

Blog Posts

The biggest threat on campus

December 11, 2016
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Education

Robert P. George and Cornel West, both professors at Princeton, are a political odd couple. George is outspokenly conservative while West has been co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. One measure of the political distance between the two of them is that George refused to support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign because of doubts about his conservatism and character, while West dissented from Hillary Clinton’s campaign from the left. Yet they are close friends, frequently and unaffectedly calling each other “brother.” For several years they have been teaching a class together