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Ramesh Ponnuru, American columnist and a senior editor for National Review magazine

 

BIO of Ramesh Ponnuru:

  • NRI Ramesh Ponnuru was born on August 16, 1974 and raised in Prairie Village, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, MO. He was raised by a Hindu father and a Lutheran mother
  • He attended Briarwood Elementary School and Mission Valley Middle School and skipped the 8th grade and directly entered high school.
  • He earned a B.A. in history and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University.
  • He is married to April Ponnuru

Ponnuru has been a senior editor at National Review since 1999. He writes on politics, policy, and the law. He is visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Ponnuru has written on a range of political and policy topics, appeared on many public affairs and news interview programs, and is a widely respected voice on conservative policy

  • Ponnuru is a regular guest speaker on policy, politics, and constitutionalism at college campuses and law schools across the country
  • He appears frequently on television programs about public affairs, including Meet the Press and Face the Nation.
  • In 2006, Ponnuru wrote The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life

Ramesh Ponnuru has called for a revival of Republican policy thinking by applying conservative ideals to contemporary problems and emphasizing the concerns of the middle class. He has frequently made the case for increasing the child tax credit to properly compensate parents for the cost of raising children, and has been a regular co-author with economist David Beckworth on the topic of monetary policy and market monetarism.

He is also the author of a monograph on Japanese industrial policy.

Ramesh Ponnuru has regularly been a guest at retreats for congressional Republicans because he is a thinker on conservative policy and its political implications.

  • In 2015, Politico Magazine featured him and his wife, April Ponnuru, as two of the “Politico 50” influential leaders in American politics.
  • In 2014, Ponnuru co-edited, with Yuval Levin, Room to Grow: Conservative Reforms for a Limited Government and a Thriving Middle Class, a reform conservative manifesto and policy agenda.
  • Ponnuru also contributed the book’s concluding chapter, on constitutionalism. The book was widely praised, with New York Times columnist David Brooks calling it “the most coherent and compelling policy agenda the American right has produced this century."
  • He has been identified as a leader of the “reform conservative” movement.

Ponnuru became popular after contrbutung articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Weekly Standard, Newsday,Policy Review, The New Republic,Financial Times, and First Things.

Personal life

Ponnuru was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, MO. He attended Briarwood Elementary School and Mission Valley Middle School. He skipped the 8th grade and directly entered high school. After graduating from Shawnee Mission East High School at the age of 16, he went to Princeton University, where he earned a B.A. in history and graduated summa cum laude. Raised by a Hindu father and a Lutheran mother, Ponnuru is of Asian Indian descent and has converted to Roman Catholicism from agnosticism.

He is married to April Ponnuru

Policy Ponnuru is a sought-after thinker on conservative policy and its political implications, and has regularly been a guest at retreats for congressional Republicans. and Face the Nation.and in 2013 he was a fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
(Born inAugust 16, 1974) is an American columnist and a senior editor for National Review magazine, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a columnist for Bloomberg View, and a contributing editor to the domestic policy journal National Affairs. A conservative pundit, Ponnuru has written on a range of political and policy topics, appeared on many public affairs and news interview programs, and is a widely respected voice on conservative policy Journalism Since 1999, Ponnuru has been a senior editor at National Review, where he writes on politics, policy, and the law. In its pages, he has called for a revival of Republican policy thinking by applying conservative ideals to contemporary problems and emphasizing the concerns of the middle class. He has frequently made the case for increasing the child tax credit to properly compensate parents for the cost of raising children and has been a regular co-author with economist David Beckworth on the topic of monetary policy and market monetarism In 2006, Ponnuru wrote The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, which Peggy Noonan called “the most significant statement of the need to protect human life in America since Ronald Reagan’s Abortion and the Conscience of America.”

 
 

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