17 Facts About Karl Zinsmeister

Walter Karl Zinsmeister was born on 1959 and American writer, executive, consultant, and former government official.

Karl Zinsmeister won college rowing championships in the US and Ireland.

Karl Zinsmeister's writing has been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Real Clear Politics, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Karl Zinsmeister has been an adviser to research and policy groups, and has testified before Congress and Presidential commissions on family policy, daycare, farm subsidies, and the Iraq war.

Karl Zinsmeister has made many appearances on television and radio.

Karl Zinsmeister has written eighteen books, including a 2025 release on American populism, a 2024 historical novel about the abolition of slavery, and two recent children's books.

Karl Zinsmeister wrote two books of embedded Iraq War reporting, a book on charter schools, and other works on education, economics, and population trends.

Karl Zinsmeister created a storytelling cookbook, and a non-fiction comic book.

Karl Zinsmeister was editor-in-chief of The American Enterprise, a national magazine covering politics, business, and culture.

Karl Zinsmeister was an embedded journalist during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and then served three additional months-long embeddings with combat units during the insurgency stage of the war.

Karl Zinsmeister shot a documentary film about soldiers in Iraq, called "WARRIORS", which was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and nationally broadcast by PBS.

Karl Zinsmeister returned to Washington to serve as vice president at the Philanthropy Roundtable, an association of donors, where he produced more than a dozen books, 40 magazine issues, 50 podcast episodes, and many other products.

Karl Zinsmeister has conducted in-depth research on the inventive power and importance of science philanthropy, which has powered innovations ranging from the world's greatest telescopes to medical breakthroughs like blood typing; organ transplants; vaccines for polio, yellow fever, and many other diseases; fundamental genetic discoveries; and seminal brain research; along with many other discoveries.

Karl Zinsmeister has analyzed who gives most to charity in the US, and tracked the rise of donations by Americans for overseas development work.

Karl Zinsmeister has catalogued the private philanthropy that was crucial to creation of the state of Israel.

In recent years Karl Zinsmeister has returned to authoring a wide range of books.

Karl Zinsmeister has recently published essays in periodicals like the Wall Street Journal.