16 Facts About Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is an American conservative thinker, political pundit, and journalist.

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review magazine, a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, and a contributing editor to the domestic policy journal National Affairs.

Ramesh Ponnuru has been a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute since 2012.

Ramesh Ponnuru was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, where he attended Briarwood Elementary School and Mission Valley Middle School.

Ramesh Ponnuru completed a 107-page long senior thesis, titled "Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America, in Brief", under the supervision of Robert P George.

Since 1999, Ramesh Ponnuru has been either a senior fellow or senior editor, or both at the same time, at National Review, where he has frequently written and commented on such diverse topics as politics, public policy, economics, the law, and even his religious faith.

Ramesh Ponnuru has long been one of the nation's leading conservative voices in making the case for increasing the child tax credit to properly compensate parents for the cost of raising children, and won praise for finding common ground with progressives and Democrats on the issue.

Ramesh Ponnuru has been a regular co-author and leading voice with economist David Beckworth on the topic of monetary policy and market monetarism.

Ramesh Ponnuru has frequently appeared on a diverse array of television programs about public affairs, among them Meet the Press, Face the Nation, C-Span, the PBS NewsHour, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, ABC News' This Week with George Stephanopoulos, ABC News.

Ramesh Ponnuru has been a regular guest speaker on policy, politics, and constitutionalism at several of the nation's leading college campuses, In 2013, he was a fellow at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics.

In 2006, Ramesh Ponnuru wrote The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life.

Ramesh Ponnuru has been the author of a highly influential monograph on Japanese industrial policy, published jointly by the American Enterprise Institute and Center for Policy Studies.

Ramesh Ponnuru has written for other such national publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Newsday, New York Post, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, The New Republic, and First Things, an ecumenical and conservative religious journal.

Ramesh Ponnuru has long been a much sought after speaker on conservative domestic policy and their political implications; he has regularly been a featured guest at retreats for congressional Republicans, including the party's leadership.

Ramesh Ponnuru has often been identified as a leader of the "reform conservative" movement, and was prominently featured in a 2014 New York Times Magazine cover story as one of the foremost conservative intellectuals who comprise it.

In 2014, Ramesh Ponnuru co-edited, with Yuval Levin, Room to Grow: Conservative Reforms for a Limited Government and a Thriving Middle Class, described as a reform conservative manifesto and policy agenda.