Christopher Caldwell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist, editor, author, writer |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
| Genre | Journalism |
Christopher Caldwell (born 1962) is aconservative American journalist who was raised in Massachusetts. He is a contributing writer forThe New York Times andThe Wall Street Journal, a contributing editor at theClaremont Review of Books, and a member of the editorial committee of the French quarterlyCommentaire. He is the author ofReflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West andThe Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. Previously, he was a senior editor at the now defunctThe Weekly Standard and a columnist for theFinancial Times. He was also a former contributor of book reviews toSlate.
Caldwell was born inLynn,Massachusetts,[citation needed] and graduated fromHarvard College.[1]
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He was a senior editor at the now defunctThe Weekly Standard and a columnist for theFinancial Times.[citation needed] He was also a former contributor of book reviews toSlate.[2]He has been a contributing writer forThe New York Times andThe Wall Street Journal, a contributing editor at theClaremont Review of Books, and a member of the editorial committee of the French quarterlyCommentaire.[3]
Caldwell's 2009 bookReflections on the Revolution in Europe, which deals with increased Muslim immigration to Europe, received mixed reactions.The Economist newspaper called it "an important book as well as a provocative one: the best statement to date of the pessimist's position on Islamic immigration in Europe."[4] Others were more blunt, accusing Caldwell of stoking whatThe Guardian referred to as a "culture of fear".[5][6][7]
In 2020, Caldwell publishedThe Age of Entitlement, in which he argues that the civil rights movement has had significant unintended consequences: "Just half a decade into the civil rights revolution, America had something it had never had at the federal level, something the overwhelming majority of its citizens would never have approved: an explicit system of racial preference. Plainly the civil rights acts had wrought a change in the country's constitutional culture."[8] Caldwell writes that theCivil Rights Act 1964 was "not just a major new element in theConstitution" but "a rival constitution, with which the original one was frequently incompatible."[9]
It was reviewed inThe New York Times,[10]The Wall Street Journal, and theClaremont Review of Books.Richard Aldous wrote inThe Wall Street Journal, "It's curious that a book subtitled 'America Since the Sixties' doesn't actually have much history in it", going on to say: "The reader turns the page expectantly, waiting to see what Mr. Caldwell has to say aboutPresident Trump. We will never know, at least not from reading this book, because Mr. Caldwell ends in 2015. ... That's a shame, because 'The Age of Entitlement' raises important questions not just about the future of the republic but about Western society more generally."[11]
Caldwell's wife, Zelda, is the daughter of journalistRobert Novak.[12] His daughter, Lucy Caldwell, was the campaign manager forJoe Walsh'spresidential campaign challengingDonald Trump for theRepublican nomination in 2020.[13] Caldwell is Catholic.[14]
