Julian Sanchez (born March 14, 1979) is an American writer living in
Washington, D.C.
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Currently a senior fellow at the
Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries.Koch Indust ...
, he previously covered technology and privacy issues as the Washington editor for ''
Ars Technica
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''.
Life
He first came to public attention in 2003 when he helped to expose gun control critic
John Lott
John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He ...
for defending himself in online forums using an assumed identity. Soon afterwards, Sanchez was hired as an assistant editor at ''
Reason
Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth. It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, ...
'' magazine, where he is now a contributing editor.
Sanchez was raised in
Norwood in
Bergen County, New Jersey
Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[The Economist
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''. In the winter of 2005–06,
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is a British-American author, editor, and blogger. Sullivan is a political commentator, a former editor of ''The New Republic'', and the author or editor of six books. He started a political blog, ' ...
asked Sanchez and
Ross Douthat
Ross Gregory Douthat (born 1979) is an American political analyst, blogger, author and ''New York Times'' columnist. He was a senior editor of ''The Atlantic''. He has written on a variety of topics, including the state of Christianity in Americ ...
to guest blog on his widely read weblog, ''
The Daily Dish
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is a British-American author, editor, and blogger. Sullivan is a political commentator, a former editor of ''The New Republic'', and the author or editor of six books. He started a political blog, ' ...
''. Sanchez's work has been cited in blogs such as ''
The Volokh Conspiracy
The Volokh Conspiracy ( ) is a blog co-founded in 2002 by law professor Eugene Volokh, covering legal and political issues from an ideological orientation it describes as "generally libertarian, conservative, centrist, or some mixture of these." ...
'', ''Marginal Revolution'', and ''
Instapundit
Instapundit is a blog maintained by Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee.
History and characteristics
InstaPundit was launched in August 2001 as an experiment, and a part of Reynolds' class on Internet law. After the Sep ...
''. In a 2010 blog post he adapted the philosophical term
epistemic closure
Epistemic closure is a property of some belief systems. It is the principle that if a subject S knows p, and S knows that p entails q, then S can thereby come to know q. Most epistemological theories involve a closure principle and many skepti ...
to describe the effect that the rise of conservative media has had on right-of-center political discourse in the United States. His analysis sparked a spirited debate among conservative pundits that was eventually covered by ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
''.
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Sanchez is a graduate of
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
, where he studied
philosophy
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and
political science
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...
.
References
External links
JulianSanchez.com*
Sanchez's video discussionson the
BloggingHeads.tv
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website
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1979 births
Living people
American atheists
American bloggers
American magazine editors
American online journalists
Cato Institute people
Hispanic and Latino American writers
New York University alumni
People from Norwood, New Jersey
Writers from New Jersey
21st-century American non-fiction writers