John Fund

John Fund

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name =John Fund


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birth_place =Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
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occupation =Commentator, columnist, author
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John Fund (born on April 8 1957 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American political journalist and columnist for the website of the "Wall Street Journal". He also writes for the Journal's "Political Diary" newsletter and is a senior editor and columnist for "The American Spectator".

Career

Fund joined "The Wall Street Journal" as a deputy editorial features editor in 1984 and was a member of the editorial board from 1995 through 2001. The articles he has written have appeared in "Esquire", "Reader's Digest", "Reason", "The New Republic", and "National Review". He is the author of "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy", in which he describes the American election system as "befitting an emerging Third World country rather than the world's leading democracy" and co-author of "Cleaning House: America's Campaign for Term Limits" with James Coyne. Fund also collaborated with Rush Limbaugh on "The Way Things Ought to Be". [cite web | url = http://www.manhattan-institute.org/youngleaders/events/index.htm | title = 2008 Events: John Fund | author = Manhattan Institute | month = February | year = 2008 | accessdate = 2008-09-28 ] [cite web | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/books/review/020QUEENA.html | title = Ghosts in the Machine | author = Joe Queenan | work = The New York Times | month = March | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2006-09-25 ]

Bibliography

* "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy" (Encounter Books, 2004, ISBN 1-59403-061-8)
* "Cleaning House: America's Campaign for Term Limits" (Regnery Gateway, 1992, ISBN 0-89526-516-8)

References

External links

* [http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/bio.html Official biography] at OpinionJournal.com.
* [http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/archive/ Archive of Fund's columns] at OpinionJournal.com.
* [http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110010494 "Leave it to Deaver"] Fund writes about meeting Michael Deaver and Ronald Reagan while in high school.


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