John Leo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the editor of MindingTheCampus.com, a webmagazine dedicated to chronicling developments within higher education in an effort to restore balance and intellectual pluralism to our American universities. He is also a contributing editor at the Institute's City Journal. His popular column, "On Society," ran in U.S.News & World Report for 17 years, and was syndicated to 140 newspapers through the Universal Press Syndicate.

Leo has worked as a senior writer for Time magazine, and as a staff reporter for the New York Times specializing in intellectual trends and the social sciences. Among other position he has held are assistant administrator of New York City's environmental protection administration, editor of a Catholic newspaper in Iowa, associate editor of Commonweal, book editor of the social science journal Trans-Action (now Society), and "Press Clips" columnist for the Village Voice.

Leo has also served as a member of the ACLU church-state committee and as a member, for ten years, of the Columbia Journalism Review's board of advisers. He has taught a summer course in non-fiction writing at Southampton College. He is the author of three books, most recently "Incorrect Thoughts."

He has three grown daughters and lives in Manhattan with his wife, Jacqueline, an author and editor.

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Articles/Op-eds

• MIT's 'Emotional' Report on Women, The Daily Beast, 03-24-11
• ROTC Back in the News, Minding the Campus, 09-27-10
• Universities Shouldn't Favor Politically Popular Groups, Washington Examiner, 04-21-10
• Left Trots Out 'Climate of Hate' Canard, Again, Washington Examiner, 06-24-09
• A Limited Love of Liberty, Wall Street Journal, 04-24-09
• The Hate Rally That Wasn't, Huffington Post, 10-15-08
• Nancy's Nazi Shock: Did She Forget the Bush Years?, RealClearPolitics, 08-08-08
• When Journalists Applaud Obama, New York Daily News, 08-01-08
• Canadian Kangaroos, National Review Online, 06-20-08
• The Hazards of Telling the Truth, Wall Street Journal, 04-15-08
• At Columbia, History Is Being Written By The Radicals, New York Daily News, 04-10-08
• Invitation Shames UND, Grand Forks Herald, 03-26-08
• Catholic-Bashing, Huffington Post, 03-22-08
• Barely Relevant Notes on Bill Buckley, Huffington Post, 02-28-08
• Columbia's Cave-In, New York Post, 11-17-07
• Who Will Stand Up For Campus Free Speech?, Townhall.com, 10-03-07
• Among Collegiate Educators, a Disturbing Hegemony, Huffington Post, 09-12-07
• Arrested Development, Washington Post, 08-21-07
• Brawley Case of the South, The New York Sun, 08-13-07
• Swerving Around Riots, The New York Sun, 07-19-07
• More Articles >>

City Journal articles

• The Power of One, 9 October 2008
• Girl Crazy, 23 May 2008
• Columbia’s Rebel Reunion, 10 April 2008
• Orwell Lives, 4 February 2008
• Bowling With Our Own, 25 June 2007
• Let the Segregation Commence, 13 June 2007
• Taking a Flier on Free Speech, 4 June 2007
• The Office of Assertion, 21 May 2007
• Holocaust Avoidance, 4 April 2007
• Sins of Omission, 28 February 2007
• Free Inquiry? Not on Campus, Winter 2007
• Shut Up, Fascist Pig, Autumn 2006
• Academic Freedom, Winter 1999
• Lite Wisdom, Summer 1998

Podcasts

• Herb London, John Leo and Anne Neal of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni discuss the role of trustees in light of the recent Penn State scandal., 07-26-12
• Richard Arum, professor of Sociology and Education at New York University, discusses his book, Academically Adrift, with MindingTheCampus.com editor John Leo., 01-12-12
• George Leef, director of research for the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, discusses whether college is right for everyone with MindingTheCampus.com editor John Leo., 01-11-12
• Peter Sacks, author of Tearing Down the Gates, discusses whether college is right for everyone with MindingTheCampus.com editor John Leo., 01-11-12
• Clayton Christenson, discusses his new book, The Innovative University, with John Leo., 12-14-11
• John Leo interviews Donald Downs about academic freedom and its true meaning, 05-05-09
• Charles Murray discusses his book, 'Real Education' with John Leo, 02-06-09
• Anthony Kronman discusses the future of higher education in the U.S. with John Leo, 02-05-09
• John Leo Interviews Mark Bauerlein, 01-08-09
• John Leo interviews Ward Connerly on his efforts to eliminate racial preferences in five states, 01-30-08
• John Leo and Peter Berkowitz discuss the legacy of Allan Bloom's book "The Closing of the American Mind", 10-07-07