James Kirchick

James Kirchick is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, a writer at large for AIR MAIL, a contributor to the Axel Springer Global Reporters Project, and the author of the instant New York Times bestseller, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. He has reported from over 40 countries and his work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Tablet, the New York Review of Books, New York, Rolling Stone, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Welt, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Spectator, and the Times Literary Supplement, among many other publications across the United States and around the world.

Kirchick began his professional journalism career at The New Republic, where he wrote about domestic politics, lobbying, intelligence, foreign policy, and exposed former presidential candidate Ron Paul’s extremist newsletters. Subsequently, he was writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, where he wrote about the politics and cultures of the twenty-one countries in the news company’s broadcast region. Among the many events he covered were the First Libyan Civil War, a stolen presidential election in Belarus, and revolution and ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan. His first book, “The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age,” was published by Yale University Press in 2017.