The Ramesh Ponnuru File
PONNURU FACTS
Ponnuru, a Catholic convert whose father is
Hindu and mother Lutheran, grew up in Prairie Village, Kansas, and
graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School at the age of 15 (he
skipped eighth grade). He went to Princeton University and earned a
bachelor’s degree in history, graduating summa cum laude.
He
began writing for National Review a dozen years ago and is now senior
editor of the conservative opinion magazine. Since mid-2007, he has
written the “Right Matters” column on WashingtonPost.com. He has been
widely published, including in the New York Times, the Wall Street
Journal, The Weekly Standard, and The New Republic, and made many TV
appearances, including on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. His
book, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the
Disregard for Human Life, was published in 2006 by Regnery Publishing.
Ponnuru
lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife April Foster Ponnuru,
executive director of National Review Institute, and two daughters, Mary
and Elizabeth.
PONNURU BY THE NUMBERS
15 Age he graduated from high school16 Words in his book title
36 His age (he was born Aug. 16, 1974, in Prairie Village, Kansas)
3,400 Facebook friends
400 Posts at WashingtonPost.com
PONNURU QUOTES
“When I first became interested in politics, in high school, I tended toward liberalism. But I was cured of that well before I became an adult.” (IgnatiusInsight.com)
“Liberal reporters just don’t see it (media bias) in the same way that fish don’t know they’re wet.” (HumanEvents.com)
“Sometimes I like to think that I’m changing people’s minds, as when I enter various intra-conservative debates. At other times I assume readers already believe the same general things I do, but provide some information they had not had or an argument they had not thought of.” ( Columbia Journalism Review)
PONNURU ON THE WEB
http://tinyurl.com/6j5lmr8
Ponnuru appears on C-Span’s Washington Journal
http://tinyurl.com/y8o3e4g
Ponnuru talks to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
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