Benjamin Weingarten

Ben Weingarten is a Senior Contributor at The Federalist and co-host of its media criticism program “BAD NEWS,” Columnist at Newsweek, Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, Fellow of the Claremont Institute, co-host of the Edmund Burke Foundation’s program “The NatCon Squad,” and a Newsmax Contributor. He is the author of American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party (Bombardier, 2020). In 2019 he was awarded The Fund for American Studies’ Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship, under the auspices of which he is writing a book on U.S.-China policy and its bold transformation under the Trump administration. Follow Ben on Twitter @bhweingarten.