Richard M. Reinsch II is editor in chief of the Civitas Institute’s Civitas Outlook. He was the founding editor of the online magazine Law & Liberty. Immediately before joining Civitas, he was the editor in chief and director of publications of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) where he introduced the Institute’s white paper program, helped launch two new podcasts, Qualified Opinions and Econception, and led AIER’s online journal, The Daily Economy. Previously he served as director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and AWC Family Foundation Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He was also a senior fellow at Liberty Fund, where he founded Law & Liberty and its podcast. Reinsch’s books include The Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty (University Press of Kansas, 2019), which he coauthored with Peter Lawler, and Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of Counterrevolutionary (ISI Books, 2010). He has also been widely published in the popular press and in policy journals, including Perspectives on Political Science, Logos, Religion & Liberty, Modern Age, National Review, Washington Examiner, and City Journal. He holds a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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