Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell (born 1962) is an American journalist and senior editor at The Weekly Standard, as well as a regular contributor to the Financial Times and Slate. His writing also frequently appears in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, where he is a contributing editor to the paper's magazine, and The Washington Post. He was also a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Press and the assistant managing editor of The American Spectator.

Caldwell was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and is a graduate of Harvard College, where he studied English literature. His wife Zelda is the daughter of the late journalist Robert Novak.[1] He has five children.

He is receiving increasing attention for his contributions to public debate of the issues of the day. David Brooks, reviewing the best journalism of 2008, includes Caldwell for his articles questioning the morality of capitalism.[2]

Although Caldwell's 2009 book Reflections on the Revolution In Europe has been accused of stoking Islamophobia, or what The Guardian refers to as a "culture of fear",[3][4][5] he insists that he is "instinctively pro-immigration" and conscious of the media tendency to "sensationalise stories against Muslims".[6] The Economist newspaper reviewed it: "this is an important book as well as a provocative one: the best statement to date of the pessimist’s position on Islamic immigration in Europe."[7] The Marxist historian Perry Anderson concurrred, calling it 'the most striking single book to have appeared, in any language, on immigration in Western Europe'.[8]

Books

References

  1. ^ "Robert Novak Dies at 78". All 4 Free Here. 2009-08-19. http://all4freehere.com/2009/08/robert-novak-dies-at-78/. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  2. ^ "David Brooks: The best journalism of 2008". New York Times. 2009-01-02. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/opinion/02iht-edbrooks.1.19053198.html. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  3. ^ Goodhart, David (2009-01-17). "Do we need more people in Europe?". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/17/christopher-caldwell-immigration-islam. Retrieved 2009-09-26. 
  4. ^ "Europe is changing to accommodate Islam, says US author". NRC Handelsblad. 2009-09-08. http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2353318.ece/Europe_is_changing_to_accommodate_Islam,_says_US_author. Retrieved 2009-09-26. 
  5. ^ Mishra, Pankaj (2009-08-15). "A culture of fear". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/15/eurabia-islamophobia-europe-colonised-muslims. Retrieved 2009-09-26. 
  6. ^ "An Interview with Christopher Caldwell". Pickled politics. 2009-06-03. http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/4706. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  7. ^ A treacherous path? The Economist 27 August 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2010
  8. ^ Perry Anderson, 'Portents of Eurabia', The National, August 2009

External links

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