Speaker Biographies
July 15, 2005
Brian C. Anderson is senior editor of City Journal, the cultural and political quarterly published by the Manhattan Institute, where he writes extensively on social and political trends. Formerly, he was a research associate in social and political studies at AEI and the literary editor of Crisis. Aside from his articles in City Journal, Mr. Anderson’s work has appeared in First Things, The Public Interest, Wilson Quarterly, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Sun, and the Washington Times. In addition to South Park Conservatives (Regnery Publishing, 2005), Mr. Anderson is author of Raymond Aron: The Recovery of the Political (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998) and The Pope in America (Crisis Books, 1996), and is editor of On Cultivating Liberty (Rowman & Littlefield 1999), a collection of Michael Novak’s social and political writings. He is also coeditor of two academic series: Transaction Publisher’s Aron Project, which is publishing new, expanded editions of Raymond Aron’s greatest works, and Lexington Publisher’s Religion, Society, and Politics in the New Millennium, which has published works by cutting-edge religious and social thinkers.
Kevin A. Hassett is the director of economic policy studies and a resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI, Mr. Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University. He was an economic adviser to the Bush campaign in the 2004 presidential election, and was the chief economic adviser to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) during the 2000 primaries. He has also served as a policy consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury during both the former Bush and Clinton administrations. Mr. Hassett is a member of the Joint Committee on Taxation’s Dynamic Scoring Advisory Panel. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of six books on economics and economic policy, including the forthcoming Toward Fundamental Tax Reform (AEI Press). He has published scholarly articles in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and many other professional journals. His popular writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, the Washington Post, and numerous other outlets. His economic commentaries are regularly aired on radio and television, including recent appearances on the Today Show, CBS’s Morning Show, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Hardball, Moneyline, and Power Lunch.
Phillip L. Swagel is a resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI in March 2005, he served as chief of staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He has previously been a senior economist at the Council, a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University, and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund. He has written on international trade policy, the political economy of the welfare state, and most recently on Social Security.
Jonathan Weisman covers economic policy issues, from budgeting to taxation to Social Security and Medicare, for the Washington Post. His reporting career has included coverage of the Clinton White House, the 2000 presidential campaign and major congressional issues for the Baltimore Sun, as well as more detailed tax, energy, and transportation coverage for Congressional Quarterly. For five years, he wrote about science, energy, and nuclear weapons issues for the Oakland Tribune in California. Prior to his arrival at the Post in July, he was at USA Today, where he covered economic policy and post-September 11, 2001, defense issues.
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