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| Born | (1968-08-22)August 22, 1968 (age 57) Arlington County,Virginia, U.S. |
| Education | University of Virginia (BA) |
| Occupations | Editor-in-chief, syndicated columnist |
| Known for | National Review |
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| Children | 1 |
Richard A. Lowry (/ˈlaʊri/; born August 22, 1968)[1] is an American writer, and the former editor and noweditor-in-chief ofNational Review, an Americanconservative news and opinion magazine. Lowry became editor ofNational Review in 1997 when its founder,William F. Buckley Jr., selected him to lead the magazine. Lowry is also a syndicatedcolumnist,author, and political analyst who is a frequent guest onNBC News andMeet the Press. He has written four books.
Lowry was born and raised inArlington, Virginia, the son of asocial worker mother and an English professor father.[1][2][3][4] After graduating fromYorktown High School in Arlington, Lowry attended theUniversity of Virginia, where he studied English and history.[5] He was editor of theVirginia Advocate, the school's conservative monthly magazine.
After graduating, Lowry worked forCharles Krauthammer as a research assistant, and, later, as a reporter for a local newspaper innorthern Virginia.[5]
In 1992, Lowry joinedNational Review, after finishing second in the magazine's young writers' contest. In the summer of 1994, he became the articles editor forNational Review and moved toWashington, D.C. to coverCongress.[5] In November 1997, Lowry became editor ofNational Review at the age of 29, taking over fromJohn O'Sullivan, who had succeeded Buckley in that position ten years earlier.[6] At the time, Buckley said of Lowry, "I am very confident that I've got a very good person."[6]
During theCOVID-19 pandemic, Lowry praisedFloridagovernorRon DeSantis for his hands-off approach toCOVID-19 in a May 2020 column titled "Where does Ron DeSantis go to get his apology?".[7][8]
Lowry writes a syndicated column forKing Features and an opinion column forPolitico.
As a political commentator, he regularly appears on various cable shows and network Sunday shows, including NBC'sMeet the Press, ABC'sThis Week, andFOX News Sunday.
In a September 2024 interview withMegyn Kelly, while discussing theSpringfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax, social media users accused Lowry of callingHaitian immigrants in Springfield "niggers". Lowry denied that he used the slur, saying he instead mistakenly combined the words "migrants" and "immigrants".[9]
Lowry has written three non-fiction books. HisNew York Times best-selling book,Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years[10] is apolemic against formerPresidentBill Clinton, whom he characterizes as "Navel-Gazer-in-Chief".[11] In June 2013, he published theAbraham Lincoln political biographyLincoln Unbound.[12]
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In November 2019, he publishedThe Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free.[13] In a review inForeign Affairs,Georgetown University Professor of Government,Charles King, criticized the book, arguing that Lowry's definition of a nation is vague, ahistorical and contradictory: "few of Lowry's statements would pass muster with historians", and that Lowry's assertions about the unity, homogeneity and fixity of units such as Ancient Egypt, Korea, Japan and China "should be an embarrassment" to "any serious thinker."[14]Pulitzer Prize winnerCarlos Lozada was harshly critical of the book in a review forThe Washington Post, describing it as an attempt to sanitize PresidentDonald Trump's variant of nationalism and "part of a larger effort on the right to create an after-the-fact framework for Trumpism, to contort the president's utterances and impulses into a coherent worldview that can outlast him — a sort of rescue mission for the conservative movement."[15]
Lowry's first novel, the political thrillerBanquo's Ghosts, was co-written with Keith Korman and published in 2009.[16]
In June 2011, Lowry married Vanessa Palo at theChurch of St. Vincent Ferrer inManhattan.[17] The couple have one daughter.[18]
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