Reihan Salam

Reihan Morshed Salam is a conservative American political commentator, columnist, and author. Born on December 29, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York, Salam is the president of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research since 2019. Prior to this, he served as the executive editor of National Review and as a columnist for Slate. Salam has also been a contributing editor at National Affairs and The Atlantic. He has contributed as an interviewer for VICE and was a fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Salam's parents are Bangladeshi-born Muslim immigrants who arrived in New York in 1976. He attended Stuyvesant High School, Cornell University, and later transferred to Harvard University, where he graduated in 2001 with an A.B. degree in Social Studies.More