Josh Hammer

Josh Hammer is Newsweek's senior-editor-at-large, a syndicated columnist, and the author of Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West (Radius Book Group, 2025). He also hosts The Josh Hammer Show, a podcast and syndicated radio show. A frequent commentator on political, legal, and cultural issues, Josh is a constitutional attorney by training and additionally serves as senior counsel for the Article III Project. He is also a fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation and the Palm Beach Freedom Institute.

Josh has been published by the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, The Telegraph, the Daily Mail, U.S. News & World Report, National Review, First Things, National Affairs, American Affairs, the Claremont Review of Books, The New Criterion, The Free Press, City Journal, Public Discourse, Tablet Magazine, Deseret Magazine, The Spectator, UnHerd, The National Interest, The European Conservative  Fortune, Fox Business, the Jewish Journal, and many other places. His legal scholarship has also been published by the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and the University of St. Thomas Law Journal. Josh is a frequent TV guest on Fox News, Fox Business, and Newsmax, and he regularly appears on popular national radio shows as well.

Josh graduated from Duke University, where he majored in economics, and from the University of Chicago Law School. He lives in Florida with his wife and daughter, and he also remains an active member of the State Bar of Texas.