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Noah Christopher Rothman (born 1981) is an American writer, editor, former
MSNBC
MSNBC is an American cable news channel owned by the NBCUniversal News Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Launched on July 15, 1996, and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, the channel primarily broadcasts r ...
commentator, podcaster, and author. He is a senior writer and podcast guest for ''
National Review
''National Review'' is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs. The magazine was founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in 1955. Its editor-in-chief is Rich L ...
'', and he previously served as associate editor, podcast producer, and online editor for ''Commentary''.
Early life
Rothman was born in 1981 and grew up in
Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey. At the 2020 census, the county was the state's 4th-least populous county, Raised in Lebanon Township, New Jersey, he performed in over 30 high school and repertory theater group productions by the time he graduated from Voorhees High School in 2000. He attended
Drew University
Drew University is a private university in Madison, New Jersey, United States. It has a wooded campus. As of fall 2020, more than 2,200 students were pursuing degrees at the university's three schools. While affiliated with the Methodism, Me ...
on a performing arts scholarship and earned a
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...
degree in
Russian studies
Russian studies is an interdisciplinary field crossing politics of Russia, politics, history of Russia, history, Culture of Russia, culture, economy of Russia, economics, and languages of Russia, languages of Russia and its neighborhood, often gr ...
in 2004. He earned a
Master of Arts
A Master of Arts ( or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Those admitted to the degree have ...
degree in Diplomacy and
International Relations
International relations (IR, and also referred to as international studies, international politics, or international affairs) is an academic discipline. In a broader sense, the study of IR, in addition to multilateral relations, concerns al ...
from
Seton Hall University
Seton Hall University (SHU) is a Private university, private Catholic Church, Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizab ...
in 2010.
Career
Radio
Rothman joined WABC in New York City in 2002 and became a research analyst and producer for '' The John Batchelor Show''. In 2003, he created and hosted ''The Freakin' Radio Show'' on WSNR. He interned for '' The Opie and Anthony Show'' on
XM Satellite Radio
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in 2004–2005 and played a regular character on the show.
Web series
Rothman acted in two
web series
A web series (also known as webseries, short-form series, and web show) is a series of short scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet (i.e. World Wide Web), which first emerged in the late 1 ...
. He played the character Slipknot in an episode of '' The Scene'' in 2006. In 2009, he played lead character Zeke Oros in ''Issues: The Series''.
Blogger and editor
Rothman joined Campaigns and Elections magazine in 2010 as an editor. He moved to Ology.com in 2011 as a political news editor, and then on to Mediaite as a writer in 2012. He joined the political blog
Hot Air
''Hot Air'' is a conservatism in the United States, conservative American political blog. It is written by Ed Morrissey, John Sexton, and David Strom. Karen Townsend and Jazz Shaw wrote for the blog until their deaths in 2024. The pseudonymous ...
in 2014, replacing Erika Johnsen when she left to attend law school. Rothman left Hot Air to become the assistant online editor of Commentary magazine in 2015.
Author
He is the author of the 2019 book ''Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America''. Published by Gateway Editions, an imprint of
Regnery Publishing
Regnery Publishing is a politically conservative book publisher based in Washington, D.C. The company was founded by Henry Regnery in 1947. In December 2023, Regnery was acquired from Salem Media Group by Skyhorse Publishing, with Skyhorse ...
. Reviewer Warren Blumenfeld saw the book as praising older American social justice movements that challenged hierarchies based on race and gender and attempted to remedy societal inequities associated with prejudices toward certain ethnic groups and the economic displacements of the industrial revolution, while failing to acknowledge the extent to which contemporary America "privileges and subordinates individuals based primarily on their social identities."
Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American conservative journalist, author, and political commentator. The founding editor of ''National Review Online'', from 1998 until 2019, he was an editor at ''National Review''. Goldberg writ ...
called ''Unjust'' "crisp, insightful and passionate".
Honors
In 2019, Rothman received the Alexis de Tocqueville Award from The School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University.
Personal life
Rothman is Jewish and married Jaryn Arnold in 2013. They have two children.
Bibliography
* ''Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America''. Regnery Gateway (2019).
* ''The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives' War on Fun.'' Broadside Books (2022).