Michael R. Auslin

Michael Auslin, PhD, a historian and geopolitical analyst, is the inaugural Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and is also a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His latest book is "National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America," written for the 250th anniversary of American Independence. The best-selling author of four non-fiction books, he is a longtime contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his writing appears in leading publications including The Washington Post and The Spectator. Formerly an associate professor of history at Yale, he was elected a member of the Royal Historical Society, and is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress and a fellow at the Society of the Cincinnati's American Revolution Institute.