13 Facts About David Harsanyi

David Harsanyi was born on 1970 or 1971 and is an American journalist, columnist, author, and editor.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner.

David Harsanyi's parents were Jews who emigrated from Hungary to Rome in 1969, then to New York.

David Harsanyi's father had trained as a chemist in Hungary, but without English skills he found work in New York as a diamond setter.

David Harsanyi's mother took business courses and became an accountant.

David Harsanyi has written columns for "The Wall Street Journal, Reason, National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Christian Science Monitor, The Jerusalem Post, The Globe and Mail, The Hill", and he "worked for more than a decade as an editor, reporter and producer at media outlets such as the Associated Press, the New York Daily News".

David Harsanyi was hired as a press secretary for the Republican Jewish Coalition prior to writing a column for eight years at The Denver Post.

David Harsanyi was hired by Blaze Media and then was a senior editor at the online publication, The Federalist, writing more than 800 columns.

David Harsanyi became a senior writer at National Review in 2019.

David Harsanyi left National Review in May 2022 to return to writing for The Federalist.

When David Harsanyi began writing columns for The Denver Post, he was the subject of angry threats from readers.

David Harsanyi offers a controversial thesis: our republic is dying, populism is its murderer, and the democracy replacing the republic will prove itself a dangerous dictator.

The New York Times wrote that David Harsanyi's opinions are among "differing perspectives worth your time".