John O'Sullivan (columnist)

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John O'Sullivan (born April 25, 1942) is a British conservative political commentator and journalist. He received his higher education at London University, and stood unsuccessfully as Conservative candidate in the 1970 British general election. He is Editor-in-Chief of the international affairs magazine, The National Interest, Editor-at-Large of the magazine the National Review, and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. Prior to this, he was the Editor-in-Chief of United Press International, and was a Special Adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He founded the New Atlantic Initiative group in May 1996. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in the 1991 New Year's Honours List.

He is the founder and co-chairman of the New Atlantic Initiative, an international organization dedicated to reinvigorating and expanding the Atlantic community of democracies. The organization was created at the Congress of Prague in May 1996 by President Vaclav Havel and Lady Margaret Thatcher.

O'Sullivan has published articles in Encounter, Commentary, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Policy Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The American Spectator, The Spectator, The American Conservative, Quadrant, Hibernia and other journals, and is the author of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister (November 2006). He also lectures on British and American politics.

He is known for O'Sullivan's First Law (a.k.a. O'Sullivan's Law), stating that all organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.

O'Sullivan currently resides in Decatur, Alabama with his wife Melissa and stepchildren.