James Pinkerton is a columnist

Columnist

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, author

Author

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, and political analyst. A graduate of Peter Vanleslie High School and Stanford University, he served on the White House

White House

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 staff under both Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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 and George H.W. Bush and on each of their presidential campaigns and in January 2008 became a senior adviser to the Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential campaign

Mike Huckabee presidential campaign, 2008

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.

Since his time in government he has become a columnist for Newsday

Newsday

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, a regular panelist on the Fox News program Fox News Watch

Fox News Watch

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, and a regular conservative contributor to The Huffington Post

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. He is also a senior fellow at both the Free Enterprise Fund and the New America Foundation

New America Foundation

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, a lecturer at the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University

George Washington University

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, and a contributing editor of The American Conservative

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and USA Today

USA Today

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. He frequently appears on Bloggingheads.tv

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, often in video discussions with David Corn

David Corn

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 and other media personalities.

In a discussion with economist, Glenn Loury, Pinkerton described his political ideaology as "Hamiltonian". He favors a robust US industrial policy that would stimulate industry and calls himself a "big government libertarian".

Pinkerton moderated the 2008 Libertarian presidential debate.

Pinkerton is a leading commentator in regards to the topics of internet journalism and its relationship to society.

External links

• Official Blog
• New America Foundation bio
• Archive at Newsday
• Fox News bio
• Video discussions/debates in which Pinkerton has taken part on Bloggingheads.tv
  Bloggingheads.tv
  Bloggingheads.tv is a political, world events, philosophy, and science video blog discussion site in which the participants take part in an active back and forth conversation via webcam which is then broadcast online to viewers...