Printable Biography of Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is Senior Editor of National Review Online. In addition to his position at National Review Online, Ponnuru is the author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life. Ponnuru details in his book how the popularity of controversial debates such as abortion, euthanasia, and cloning represent the party of death’s mission to narrow the circle of human beings with a right to life. Ann Coulter exclaims, “Armed only with truth and logic, [Ponnuru] takes on Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Barbara Boxer, Ron Reagan, the press, and the U.S. Supreme Court—and he’s the last one left standing.” Ponnuru graduated summa cum laude from Princeton's history department, was a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, and a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Ponnuru has appeared on CNN's Inside Politics, NBC's The McLaughlin Group, CNBC's Kudlow & Cramer, PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Fox News, and NPR's Morning Edition. His articles appear in numerous newspapers including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, Reason, and others. Michelle Malkin hails Ponnuru as “one of the nation’s most penetrating and lucid young conservative thinkers,” adding that he “makes a thorough, reasoned case for respecting life.” “Ramesh Ponnuru has given us the most significant statement on the need to protect human life since Ronald Reagan’s Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation.”—Peggy Noonan, Columnist, Wall Street Journal.