September 20, 2004
Speaker Biographies
Christopher DeMuth has been president of AEI since 1986. He previously practiced law, was a consulting economist, taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and held positions in the Reagan and Nixon administrations. His articles have appeared in Commentary, The Public Interest, the Harvard Law Review, the Wall Street Journal, and The American Enterprise.
Karl Zinsmeister is editor in chief of The American Enterprise (TAE) and the J. B. Fuqua Fellow at AEI. His research and writing covers a wide range of topics, focusing on demographics, economics, and social and cultural trends. Besides those written for TAE, his articles have appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, Reader's Digest, The Wilson Quarterly, The Public Interest, National Review, Commentary, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He frequently appears on television and radio programs, including CNN's Crossfire, ABC's Politically Incorrect, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, PBS's Think Tank, BBC World Service, and others. He is the editor of Are World Population Trends a Problem? (AEI Press, 1991); a contributor to The Nine Lives of Population Control (William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1994); and author of Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq (Truman Talley Books/St. Martin's Press, 2003). His most recent book, Dawn over Baghdad: How the U.S. Military Is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Iraq, was published this summer by Encounter Books. Before becoming TAE's editor, Mr. Zinsmeister was self-employed as a writer for nearly ten years. He has been an adviser to many research and policy groups and served as a former assistant to U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He has also testified before congressional committees and presidential commissions on numerous occasions. His work has won several national prizes, and his writing has been published abroad in Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Swedish, Chinese, and other languages.
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