Paul Kengor, Ph.D., is professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, and a New York Times bestselling author of over 20 books. He is the senior director and chief academic fellow at the Institute for Faith & Freedom and a former visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Kengor is a longtime columnist for The American Spectator and was named editor in chief of the magazine in September 2022, to succeed founder R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. He is an internationally recognized authority on several subjects, particularly Ronald Reagan, the Cold War and Marxism/communism, conservatism, faith and politics, and the American presidency.

Dr. Kengor’s articles have appeared in publications from the Washington Post and USA Today to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, as well as leading academic journals such as Political Science Quarterly and Presidential Studies Quarterly. He writes regular columns for the National Catholic Register, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and Crisis Magazine, where he is a contributing editor.

Dr. Kengor is frequently interviewed by the BBC, Fox News, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, EWTN, Relevant Radio, the Christian Broadcasting Network, and has been a guest on many radio and TV shows and podcasts, including Jordan Peterson, Mark Levin, Matt Fradd’s “Pints with Aquinas,” Michael Medved, Sebastian Gorka, Glenn Beck, Bill Bennett, Megyn Kelly, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Joe Scarborough. He has also done several videos for Prager University.

Dr. Kengor’s books have been published by HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Ignatius Press, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI Books), TAN Books, Regnery, Harper Perennial, and many others. In 2017, he released what has been described as his “magnum opus,” A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20^th Century. Among his bestsellers are his 2004 classic, God and Ronald Reagan, The Communist (2012), The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism (2017), and The Devil and Karl Marx (2020).

A number of Kengor’s books have become the basis for films and documentaries. Most notable is the major 2024 bio-pic, Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid, David Henrie, Penelope Ann Miller, and Jon Voight, which is based on his book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism (Harper Perennial, 2006).

Kengor is a frequent public speaker, at venues such as the Ronald Reagan Library, the Reagan Ranch Center, National Press Club, Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Strategic & International Studies, the Gerald Ford Library, the National Presbyterian Church, the John Paul II National Shrine, the Fulton Sheen Center, the Museum of the Bible, and at colleges from the University of Virginia to William & Mary to the Naval Academy to Notre Dame University to Princeton University.

As an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh in the late 1980s, Kengor was pre-med and minored in biochemistry/biophysics and microbiology. From 1987-91, he worked part-time and ultimately full-time upon graduation for the organ transplant team of Dr. Thomas Starzl. Kengor went on to get a master’s degree in international affairs from The American University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC. He received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He holds an honorary doctorate from Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. He and his wife, Susan, have eight children, two of which are adopted.