Reihan Salam is the current president of the Manhattan Institute. He succeeded the previous president, Lawrence J. Mone, in 2019. He is the fifth president in the history of the Manhattan Institute. Previously, he served as the executive editor of National Review, was a contributing editor at The Atlantic and National Affairs, and is a National Review Institute Policy Fellow and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
In 2014, Salam wrote that “over the past decade, the chief driver of declining carbon emissions in the U.S. has been the rise of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.” While he does accept climate science, he believes in incentivizing clean energy innovation, rather than a carbon tax, which would entail lowering the tax on carbon emissions.
With The Atlantic, Salam has published articles titled “The Virtues of Nationalism,” “Taylor Swift Succumbs to Competitive Wokeness,” and “Trump and Mexico Need Each Other.” On the Manhattan Institute’s website, he has published articles including “Why Conservatives Are Turning Against Higher Education,” “The Age of ‘Chinmerica’ Is Coming to an End,” and “Is America’s Educational System Becoming More Pluralistic?”
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