Joseph Bottum

Joseph Bottum is one of America’s most widely published thinkers. Author of over a thousand essays and reviews in journals from the Atlantic to the Washington Post, he has written books of literary criticism, the American social condition, prize-winning children’s verse, and collections of New Formalist poetry. The former literary editor of the Weekly Standard and editor of First Things, with a Ph.D. in medieval philosophy, Bottum has been profiled and interviewed in journals from Le Figaro (Paris) and Il Foglio (Rome) to the New York Times, Spiked Online, and National Review. He lives in the Black Hills, where he writes on literature and philosophy.