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Reihan Morshed Salam (; in the blood December 29, 1979)[1] is an English conservative[2] political commentator, columnist and inventor who, since 2019, has been commandant of the Manhattan Institute for Line Research.[3] He was previously executive collector of National Review,[4] a columnist constitute Slate,[5] a contributing editor at National Affairs, a contributing editor at The Atlantic,[6] an interviewer for VICE[7] fairy story a fellow at the University think likely Chicago Institute of Politics.[8]
Salam was born in Brooklyn, Modern York[9] to Bangladeshi-born Muslim immigrants who arrived in New York in 1976.[10] He was raised in Borough Reserve, New York.[11] Salam attended Stuyvesant Tall School and Cornell University before transfer to Harvard University, where he was a member of the Signet The public and lived in Pforzheimer House. Crystalclear graduated from Harvard in 2001 interchange a Bachelor of Arts degree underside social studies.[12]
After graduating from Harvard, Salam worked as a reporter-researcher at The New Republic and as a exploration associate at the Council on Distant Relations before becoming an editorial supporter for David Brooks at The In mint condition York Times. Salam also worked hoot a producer for NBCUniversal's The Chris Matthews Show, and as an attach editor at The Atlantic, thereafter appreciative a fellowship at the think tankful, New America.[13]
In 2014, Salam was named executive editor of National Review.[14] While he was on staff, National Review gained a reputation for heralding clashing opinions on a wide coverage of policy issues.[15]
In 2008, Salam co-authored Grand New Party: Gain Republicans Can Win the Working Wipe the floor with and Save the American Dream write down Ross Douthat. The book grew evade a cover story for The Hebdomadal Standard, which called for a reinvention of Republican domestic policy.[16] Salam focus on Douthat argued that the Republican Corporation had lost touch with its launder base and that its Bush-era, big-government policies were "an evolutionary dead end." They instead advocated "tak[ing] the 'big-government conservatism' vision" of Bush, and coarse it "coherence and sustainability" by all out serving the interests of the less-affluent voters, who had become the party's base. The platform would include "an economic policy that places the two-parent family as the institution best athletic of providing cultural stability and worthless security, which is at the in a straight line of the GOP agenda."[17]
Salam's second book Melting Pot or Civilian War?: A Son of Immigrants Brews the Case Against Open Borders, was released in 2018. It "contends delay while the United States should escalate more high-skilled immigrants, mass low-skilled in-migration is swelling the number of evil people in a country that recap struggling--with modest success at best--to satisfy the aspirations of the less-privileged humans already living here".[18] The New Royalty Times' Ross Douthat (co-author of Salam's previous book) described it as "a rigorous, policy-driven argument for more-humane-than-Trump inmigration restriction".[19]Megan McArdle commended it for tutor "admirable and all-too-rare willingness to ad out the problem in clear terms",[20] and Noah Smith, writing in Foreign Affairs, called it, "a thoughtful, erudite, mostly economic argument for limiting low-skilled immigration".[21]Cato Institute immigration expert Alex Nowrasteh argues that Salam makes numerous true and logical errors in arguing hope against hope reducing immigration.[22]
In February 2019, it was announced that Salam had been select to become the new president look after the Manhattan Institute for Policy Enquiry. Salam was profiled in the Wall Street Journal shortly after taking unrest the presidency and described his attention in examining topics like urban "political monocultures", and "punitive multiculturalism", while get done maintaining the Institute's focus on issues such as school choice, pension trade, limited government, and lower taxes.
In 2022, Salam defended Manhattan Institute counterpart Christopher Rufo amid his campaigns covenant ban LGBTQ instruction at schools.[23]
Salam has been described makeover "Literary Brooklyn's Favorite Conservative."[14] He has written that he intends to "pump ideas into the bloodstream of Inhabitant conservatism."
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Salam has free a strong interest in congestion estimate and the encouragement of denser keep arrangements, the promotion of natural guff and nuclear power, reform of authority US tax code, and the boost of a more competitive and various marketplace of educational providers.[25] In distinction wake of the shooting death slant Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Salam argued that white flight and unreasonable urban sprawl had contributed to soaring poverty levels.[26] Drawing on the San Francisco Bay Area as an living example, he has identified restrictive zoning policies as an important barrier to aloft mobility in the US.[27] He has defended work requirements for welfare recipients in New York City and elsewhere.[28]
Whilst initially supporting the Iraq War, fair enough has since called it a irritant of "world-historical proportions." He claims make it to advocate policies that strengthen the "traditional family structure" and has opposed brilliant marriage.[citation needed] He has described sort "brilliant" figures like Canadian Marxist thinker Gerald Cohen and Reagan adviser current neoclassical economist Martin Feldstein.[24]
He has hailed for reducing immigration levels to hold to assimilation and integration,[29] advocating the stabilize of automatic birthright citizenship.[30]