Manhattan Institute Scholar

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.

Select Media:

Lee Rodgers Show, KSFO, 7-7-09
Brad Davis Show, Talk of Connecticut, 8-5-08
Lynn Woolley Show, KTEM, 8-3-08
Jerry Doyle Show, Talk Radio Network, 8-1-08
Michael Reagan Show, Radio America, 8-1-08
Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, Westwood One, 6-2-08

Articles/Op-eds

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
College Censorship, The New York Sun, 05-02-07
Journalism's Hoax on Duke, The New York Sun, 04-17-07
Imus's Enablers, Wall Street Journal, 04-11-07
Holocaust Avoidance, Front Page Magazine, 04-06-07
Indoctrination 101 Townhall.com, 09-12-07
Brawley Case of the South New York Sun, 08-10-07
Swerving Around Riots New York Sun, 07-19-07
And the Award Goes To... New York Sun, 06-25-07
UCLA's Segregation Problem Realclearpolitics, 06-14-07
Free Inquiry? Not on Campus RealClearPolitics.com, 02-01-07(Originally appears in City Journal, Winter 2007)

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