Barton Swaim
Barton Swaim is opinion editor of the Weekly Standard. In 2005 he received a doctorate in English from the University of Edinburgh; his thesis was published as Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere (Bucknell). From 2007 to 2010 he worked for South Carolina’s Governor Mark Sanford of as a speechwriter, an experience he wrote about in a memoir titled The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics (Simon & Schuster). Since then he has been a contributing columnist for the Washington Post and currently writes on political books for the Wall Street Journal. Barton has also written frequently for the Times Literary Supplement, the New Criterion, and the Los Angeles Times.
Stories by Barton Swaim
An Evangelical Saint
An Evangelical Saint
The Venezuela Airlift?
Artisanal Sex?
Stupid Phrase Alert: 'Upending Decades of U.S. Policy'
Murray Kempton at 100
The Conflicting Dogmas of the Liberal Clerisy
The Reformation at 500
Good Writer's Disease?
Did You Ever See a Dreamer Walking?
It Can't Happen Here
How Trump's Turning Liberals into Burkeans
Through Glasses, Darkly
Bill de Blasio, Culture-meister
The Meaning of Stupid
The Expertocracy
Beyond the Cross
The Masculine Case
The Masculine Case
Prufrock: Elegant British Losses, Shakespeare's Politics, Orwell on Wells and Hitler, and More
Prufrock: Augustine's Conversion, America's Clubs, and a Sketchy Papyrus
Philosopher and King
Prufrock: Primo Levi's works, the Higher Education Ponzi Scheme, Skywriting as Art, and Trouble at the Brontë Society
Prufrock: Death and Social Media, Lionel Shriver's America, and Wallace Stevens' Reputation
Prufrock: Intelligence Enhancers, Mean Girls, and Britain's Least Glamorous Sport
Prufrock: Limousine Liberals, the Impossibility of Political Satire, and the Hatred of Poetry
Prufrock: Modiano's obscurantism, the west's soft totalitarianism, and Nézet-Séguin's turtle tattoo
Prufrock: Cultural Intelligence, Americans' Drinking Habits, and 'Chuffah'
Prufrock: Time Travel as Social Commentary, Fiction About Guilt, and Lord Byron's Secrets
Losses and Wins
Washington Examiner Top Stories
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