Jonathan V. Last is a contributing writer at The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title September 18, 1995. Currently edited by founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard has been described as a "redoubt of...

 and has a weekly editorial column in The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the...

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Last has written for The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post

The Washington Post

The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

, The New York Post, Salon.com

Salon.com

Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...

, Slate

Slate (magazine)

Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...

, The Washington Times

The Washington Times

The Washington Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the...

, The New York Press, and other publications. He has appeared on CNN

CNN

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, Sky News

Sky News

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, and the Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel

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He is one of three writers at the Galley Slaves blog, with fellow Weekly Standard staffers Victorino Matus

Victorino Matus

-Biography:Victorino Matus graduated from Georgetown University.He worked for a defense consulting firm and at the White House Writers Group. He joined The Weekly Standard in 1996...

 and David Skinner

David Skinner (journalist)

David Skinner is the editor of , which is published by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Previously, he was an assistant managing editor at The Weekly Standard, for which he frequently wrote....

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He grew up in Woodbury

Woodbury, New Jersey

Woodbury is a city in Gloucester County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, 10,307 residents were counted. Woodbury is the county seat of Gloucester County....

 and Moorestown Township

Moorestown Township, New Jersey

-Demographics:At the 2000 census, there were 19,017 people, 6,971 households, and 5,270 families residing in the township. The population density was 1,287.3 per square mile . There were 7,211 housing units at an average density of 488.1 per square mile...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

 and lives in Alexandria

Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2009, the city had a total population of 139,966. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately six miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as well as...

, Virginia

Virginia

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As a youth, he was an avid comic book collector. He still frequently writes about comic books, most notably a eulogy for the death of Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...

s Captain America

Captain America

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External links

• http://theweeklystandard.com/ The Weekly Standard Web site
• http://galleyslaves.blogspot.com/ Galley Slaves blog
• http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/122iqogr.asp "Comic Relief," The Weekly Standard, May 31, 2004
• http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110009780 "Captain America: RIP," The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2007

Articles

• "Razing New Jersey", The Weekly Standard February 13, 2006.
• "The CBS Whitewash", The Weekly Standard January 24, 2005.
• "First in Her Class", The Weekly Standard July 7, 2003.
• "The Case for the Empire", The Daily Standard May 16, 2002.