Alex Massie (born July 1, 1974) is a Scottish journalist. A former Washington correspondent for The Scotsman, he has also written for The Daily Telegraph, Scotland on Sunday, The New Republic, The Daily Beast,[1] The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, National Review Online, The Sunday Telegraph, The New York Times [2], The American Conservative, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Observer, Slate, The Irish Independent, Newsweek and The Sunday Business Post.[3] Since January 2009 [4] he has written a blog [5] that is published by The Spectator.
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He was educated at Glenalmond College in Perthshire and at Trinity College, Dublin.
In 1997, he won The John Smith Memorial Mace debating competition, speaking with Matthew Magee and representing the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin. Formerly The Observer Mace, the competition was renamed in 1995 and is run by the English-Speaking Union.
Massie supports Scottish football side Heart of Midlothian.[6]