Matthew Continetti

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Matthew Continetti is an American journalist and a policy scholar. As of 2025, he is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to its Potomac Watch podcast, and he serves as Director of Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

Born on June 24, 1981, in Alexandria, Virginia, Continetti earned a BA from Columbia University in 2003. While in college, he wrote for the Columbia Spectator, CAMPUS, and the Columbia Political Review, and he interned in 2002 for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Collegiate Network at National Review, assisting editor Rich Lowry. After graduation, he joined The Weekly Standard as an editorial assistant and later became associate editor. He was a Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow in 2011 and is a contributing editor at National Review. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, and other outlets, and has appeared on Bloggingheads.tv.

Continetti has been noted for his criticisms of Glenn Beck, comments on media coverage of the 2008 campaign, and his view that academia is broadly left-leaning. In 2015–2016, while leading the Washington Free Beacon, his team hired Fusion GPS to research several presidential candidates, including Donald Trump; funding stopped once Trump became the GOP nominee. He lives in Arlington County, Virginia, and is married to Anne Elizabeth Kristol, daughter of William Kristol. He converted to Judaism in 2011 before their marriage. In May 2023, the Russian Foreign Ministry sanctioned him and barred entry.