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James Kirchick

Fellow

Areas of Impact:

Arab Spring, Europe, Iran - Human Rights, Israel

Biography:

James Kirchick is a journalist and foreign correspondent based in Berlin. He has reported from Southern and North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caucuses. For over three years, Kirchick worked at The New Republic, covering domestic politics, lobbying, intelligence, and American foreign policy. Following The New Republic, he was writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, writing about the politics and cultures of the 21 countries in RFE/RL’s broadcast region. Among the stories he covered were the fraudulent 2010 presidential election in Belarus, ethnic cleansing in Kyrgyzstan, and the Libyan Civil War. 

Kirchick’s writing has appeared in The Weekly StandardThe American InterestThe Virginia Quarterly ReviewProspectThe Washington PostThe Wall Street JournalWorld Affairs andThe Los Angeles Times. He is a columnist for Ha’aretz and the New York Daily News, and writes the “Continental Drift” column on Europe for Tablet. His writing has also been published in Canada’s National Post, the Czech Republic’s Lidove Noviny and The Australian

James Kirchick is a journalist and foreign correspondent based in Berlin. He has reported from Southern and North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caucuses. For over three years, Kirchick worked at The New Republic, covering domestic politics, lobbying, intelligence, and American foreign policy. Following The New Republic, he was writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, writing about the politics and cultures of the 21 countries in RFE/RL’s broadcast region. Among the stories he covered were the fraudulent 2010 presidential election in Belarus, ethnic cleansing in Kyrgyzstan, and the Libyan Civil War. 

Kirchick’s writing has appeared in The Weekly StandardThe American InterestThe Virginia Quarterly ReviewProspectThe Washington PostThe Wall Street JournalWorld Affairs andThe Los Angeles Times. He is a columnist for Ha’aretz and the New York Daily News, and writes the “Continental Drift” column on Europe for Tablet. His writing has also been published in Canada’s National Post, the Czech Republic’s Lidove Noviny and The Australian

Kirchick has previously worked for The New York Sun, the New York Daily News, and The Hill. A leading voice on American gay politics and international gay rights, he is a recipient of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the Year Award. Kirchick has previously been a Hoover Institution Media Fellow and Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow.

Kirchick was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 2006

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America’s Inexcusable Inaction

30th April 2013 – New York Daily News

America’s Inexcusable Inaction

James Kirchick

Twenty-five years ago last month, the small, northern Iraqi town of Halabja became irrevocably associated with places like Auschwitz, Srebrenica and other sites of human depravity. more...

Analysis & Commentary

19th May 2013 – Quoted by Efraim Zuroff, The Times of Israel

A Hungarian Speech that Signified Nothing

James Kirchick

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban this month addressed the annual plenary of the World Jewish Congress, which was held in Budapest. The gathering convened there for the first... more...

14th May 2013 – Quoted by Oren Kessler, The Tower

Analysts: Confronting Tyrants Means Taking on Their Enablers

James Kirchick

Denouncing dictators is only partially effective without also naming and shaming their enablers, said analysts and activists Tuesday at a key international human-rights conference in the Norwegian capital. more...

6th May 2013 – NPR

Morning Edition

James Kirchick

Over the weekend in Philadelphia, the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro and niece of Fidel Castro received an award for her gay rights advocacy. To understand the significance... more...

30th April 2013 – New York Daily News

America’s Inexcusable Inaction

James Kirchick

Twenty-five years ago last month, the small, northern Iraqi town of Halabja became irrevocably associated with places like Auschwitz, Srebrenica and other sites of human depravity. more...