Senior Writer and Columnist, National Journal
January 25, 2000 - 12:00pm
About Jonathan Rauch
Jonathan Rauch has been writing books and magazine articles on culture and public policy since the early 1980s. An openly gay author since 1991, Jonathan Rauch began focusing on gay-related topics after criticizing hate-crimes laws from a gay point of view in The New Republic.
After graduating from Yale, Rauch spent two years as a reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal before moving on to write for The National Journal. He went on to become a freelance writer, with work appearing in many magazines and newspapers.
Rauch is currently a writer in residence at the Brookings Institute and has written four books: “The Outnation;” “Kindly Inquisitors;” “Demosclerosis;” and “Government’s End: Why Washington Stopped Working.”