Michael Anton
Jack Roth Senior Fellow in American Politics
Michael Anton is the Jack Roth Senior Fellow in American Politics at the Claremont Institute, where he teaches in the Institute’s fellowship programs and writes for the Claremont Review of Books.
In President Trump’s first administration, Anton served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communication on the National Security Council Staff at the White House. He also served for four years on the NSC staff in the George W. Bush administration.
Anton is the author of Dispatches from the Late Republic and the forthcoming Studies in Machiavellian Political Philosophy. He is also the author of three other books and co-editor of one essay collection.
In addition, Anton has been widely published in both mainstream and academic press, including in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Interpretation, and Perspectives on Political Science. He is perhaps best known as the author of “The Flight 93 Election,” the 2016 viral essay that galvanized many to support then-candidate Trump.
