Brian Stewart is a writer and policy analyst who has published widely in newspapers and magazines, inter alia, the Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Commentary, City Journal, The Daily Beast, The American Interest, The Daily Star, The Jerusalem Post, The Federalist, The Washington Examiner, Quillette, Persuasion, and The Bulwark. His research and writing focuses on U.S. foreign and defense policy, especially with an eye toward the Near and Far East. His work has also explored the crisis of the Republican party, culminating in the populist and authoritarian lurch of the Trump era.
In addition to working at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) and the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), Brian has traveled extensively in the Middle East where he studied Islamist and jihadist movements. He has also written on behalf of the International Republican Institute (IRI), a nonpartisan organization committed to advancing freedom and democracy worldwide by lending assistance to nascent political parties and liberal movements abroad. He was a member of the Foreign Policy Initiative's "New York Leaders Program," and has been selected to participate in institutes exploring American statecraft arranged by the Hertog Foundation and the Tikvah Fund. He has also traveled to the Middle East on national security expeditions with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the Philos Project. He has also worked at the Manhattan Institute, a free-market political firm. Brian holds a B.A. in political science and history from Indiana University. Raised hither and yon, he resides in New York.
“We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot
and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.”
George Orwell - Letter to The Tribune (20 December 1940)
