James Kirchick
correspondent, Daily Beast; author, The End of Europe

James Kirchick is a journalist and foreign correspondent currently based in Washington. He has reported from Southern and North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, across the European continent, and the Caucasus. He is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington, DC, a correspondent for the Daily Beast and a columnist for Tablet. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Ha’aretz, Time, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Slate, Weekly Standard, National Review and Commentary, among other publications. In Europe, his writing regularly appears in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Spectator.

His first book, The End of Europe, is forthcoming from Yale University Press, and he is also at work on a landmark history of gay Washington, DC for Henry Holt publishers. He has been a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Berlin, a Hoover Institution Media Fellow and a Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow, and is a professional member of the PEN American Center and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

His personal website is Jameskirchick.com

Follow James on Twitter: @JKirchick

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