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Reihan Salam
Fellow, New America Foundation
Reihan Salam is a writer, journalist, and Schwarz Fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy institute. His writing appears regularly in The National Review, Forbes.com, The Daily Beast, Slate, and other publications. His article "The Death of Macho," concerning the disruptive effects of the recession on men across the globe, appeared in Foreign Policy in 2009. He is the co-author, with Ross Douthat, of "Grand New Party: How Conservatives Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream" (Doubleday, 2008).
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Could nanotechnology ever help us build nuclear plants at low cost? Or will we have to content ourselves with novelty items like “nano-pants”?
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Reihan Salam says the GOP can “win the working class and save the American Dream.” Will business and the working class really align, or are conservatives themselves dreaming?
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Reihan Salam believes the Indiana governor practices the “politics of honest tradeoffs” the President had sought to embody.
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If there’s one thing conservatism should conserve, it’s the rejection of government tinkering in favor of innovation at the margins.
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Is the post-sexual-revolution man an improvement? Or does the “Mad Men” phenomenon signal nostalgia for something important we’re losing?
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What’s left of the male breadwinner stereotype may not survive the recession. The results won’t be pretty.
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For the conservative journalist, high school debate was a transformative experience. We asked which pundits make the most formidable arguments—from either side of the aisle.
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Reihan Salam was raised informally as a Muslim, but isn’t particularly religious. So what brings out his “boosterish” zeal?
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A conversation with the writer and fellow at the New America Foundation.