Dr. Adam Garfinkle is founding editor of The American Interest. Before founding The American Interest in 2005, he served in 2003-05 as speechwriter to the Secretary of State.
He has also been editor of The National Interest and has taught at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania,
Haverford College, Carnegie-Mellon University and other institutions of higher learning. Dr. Garfinkle served as a member of the National Security Study Group (as chief writer) of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21 st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission), and as an aide to Senator Henry M. Jackson.
A widely published scholar, he has received awards, grants, and visiting fellowships from the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright Fellowship Program, the United States Institute of Peace, the American Academy in Berlin, the German Marshall Fund, the Rajaratnam School of International Studies of the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and the Moshe Dayan Center for the Study of Middle Eastern and African Affairs at Tel Aviv University.
Among Dr. Garfinkle’s books are Broken: American Political Dysfunction How to Fix It (2013), and Jewcentricity: How the Jews Get Praised, Blamed and Used to Explain Nearly Everything (2009). His Telltale Hearts: The Origin and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement (1995) was named a “notable book of the year” in the New York Times Book Review. He is also the author of Political Writing: A Guide to the Essentials (2012).
Dr. Garfinkle received his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania (l979). He is married with three children, and (so far) six grandchildren.