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About UsAmerican Thinker is a daily internet publication devoted to the thoughtful exploration of issues of importance to Americans. Contributors are accomplished in fields beyond journalism, and animated to write for the general public out of concern for the complex and morally significant questions on the national agenda.There is no limit to the topics appearing on American Thinker. National security in all its dimensions, strategic, economic, diplomatic, and military is emphasized. The right to exist and the survival of the State of Israel are of great importance to us. Business, science, technology, medicine, management, and economics in their practical and ethical dimensions are also emphasized, as is the state of American culture. Staff Editor and publisher Thomas Lifson News editor Ed Lasky Chief political correspondent Richard Baehr Chief investigative correspondent Clarice Feldman
Submissions editor Larrey Anderson Deputy editor Mike Lee Consulting editor J.R. Dunn Comment Moderators Nancy Coppock, coordinator Michael S. Cowan Otis A. Glazebrook IV Lauri B. Regan Tony Salazar Staff biographies Thomas Lifson, editor and publisher, calls himself a recovering academic. After graduating from Kenyon College, he studied Japan, sociology and business as a graduate student at Harvard (3 degrees) and joined the faculty at Harvard Business School, where he also began the consulting career that was to lead him away from academia. He also taught sociology and East Asian studies at Harvard, and held visiting professorships at Columbia University and the Japanese National Museum of Ethnology. As a consultant, he has worked with major companies from the United States, Japan, Europe, and Australia at the nexus of human, organizational, and strategic issues. A Democrat by birth, he became more conservative in adulthood as reality taught him that dreams of perfecting human society always run smack into human nature. In 2003 he founded American Thinker. He appears frequently on the Dennis Miller radio show, as well as other talk radio programs. Richard Baehr, chief political correspondent, is a management consultant in the health care field, and is the president of Richard A. Baehr & Associates. He frequently serves as an expert witness in healthcare litigation cases involving planning and financial matters. Richard has had a long interest in the Middle East, and American politics, and is a frequent speaker and writer on these subjects. He has spoken at many Jewish organization meetings, synagogues, and colleges on various topics: Israeli-Palestinian relations, the war in Lebanon, American politics and Israel, the future of Israel and the Middle East, and American political trends. Richard was recently named a Visiting Fellow of the Jewish Policy Center, and was a panelist for a Jewish Policy Center Forum along with Michael Medved, John Podhoretz and David Horowitz. He has been a guest on many talk radio programs including those of Michael Medved, Dennis Miller and Milt Rosenberg. Richard also writes a commentary on the Middle East and American politics which is distributed by email. Richard is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kenyon College. He is married with two adult children. Ed Lasky, news editor, is a former lawyer, and now a stock trader. Northwestern University, B.A. economics, University of Michigan Law School-J.D., Master of Management, J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Northwestern University). A read-aholic husband of one and father of three wonderful kids (twin girls, and a son), Ed is focused on politics, media monitoring, and foreign affairs. He started being concerned about the future when he had children. 9/11 was a motivating factor, as well. He feels fortunate to live in America Ed has appeared on the Milt Rosenberg show in Chicago and a variety of other radio shows (including National Public Radio); has been mentioned in Newsweek and interviewed by the NY Times. Recently he appeared on the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. Rick Moran is a professional writer/editor living in Streator, IL. He is a contributor to American Thinker as well as being its associate editor. He is also Chicago editor of Pajamas Media and is proprietor of the website Right Wing Nuthouse. Larrey Anderson, submissions editor, is a writer and philosopher. He studied comparative religion, philosophy, and law at Harvard, Penn State, and Catholic University of America. He served three terms as an Idaho state senator including a stint as chairman of the Health and Welfare Committee. He retired from the senate for health reasons. He has written four books. He lives on the Snake River in Idaho with his wife (sometime AT contributor Eileen McDevitt) and their three Irish Water Spaniels. Larrey and Eileen have two children and three (soon to be four) grandchildren. Marc Sheppard, environment editor, is a senior partner in a technology consultation and software development firm on Long Island, where he lives with this wife and three children. A healed former liberal, he swapped his subscription to Rolling Stone for National Review over 20 years ago. Now an unrepentant skeptic, he writes commentary on culture, media, education and politics, with a watchful eye on their ideological hijacking through the misrepresentation of science and technology. |
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