Biography
Richard M. Reinsch II is editor in chief of the Civitas Institute’s Civitas Outlook. He was the founding editor of the online magazine Law & Liberty. Immediately before joining Civitas, he was the editor-in-chief and director of publications at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). Previously, he served as director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and AWC Family Foundation Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Reinsch’s books include The Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty (University Press of Kansas, 2019), which he coauthored with Peter Lawler, and Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of Counterrevolutionary (ISI Books, 2010). He has also been widely published in the popular press and in policy journals, including Perspectives on Political Science, The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, National Affairs, Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Spectator, Religion & Liberty, Modern Age, National Review, and Washington Examiner. He holds a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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