Tunku Varadarajan is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution

Tunku Varadarajan

Biography: 

Tunku Varadarajan was the Hoover Institution's institutional editor and editor-in-chief of Hoover’s in-house publication Defining Ideas. He was previously a research fellow at Hoover and the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism.  A writer-at-large at the Daily Beast, he was a former editor of Newsweek and Newsweek International. Previously, he was executive editor (opinions) at Forbes, assistant managing editor and op-ed editor of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York bureau chief for The Times (of London). Born in India, he is a British citizen. A visiting scholar at New York University's Department of Journalism, he is a former lecturer in law at Trinity College, Oxford. He has also taught at NYU's Stern School of Business, the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. Varadarajan has a BA in law, with honors, from Oxford University.

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“Why Wouldn’t People Like ’Em?”

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Two successful Indo-American politicians seem to have risen by
defying identity politics, not pandering to them.

Analysis and Commentary

America's Prime Minister

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Rahm Emanuel’s expected departure is more than just your standard White House shakeup: it costs Obama the man with the political grit and muscle to make his dreams come true...

Analysis and Commentary

The GOP's Purity Pledge

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Sixteen years after the disastrous Contract With America comes...the Pledge to America, an attempt by the party establishment to rein in the Tea Party rabble and reassure us the elders are still in charge...

Analysis and Commentary

What Did Velma Hart Expect?

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The middle-class town crier who spoke truth to Obama believed he could work miracles. Tunku Varadarajan on why she’s so disappointed—and who’s to blame...

Analysis and Commentary

A Suicidal Vote for Purity

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Tunku Varadarajan rues the Tea Party primary victories that have no chance of general election success—and suggests it’s time for Republicans to drop the slogans and scare-mongering and come up with some real ideas...

Analysis and Commentary

Hillary's Home Run of a Speech

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

The secretary of State delivered the best speech of the Obama administration this morning. Tunku Varadarajan on her “new American moment...”

Analysis and Commentary

A Very American Prime Minister

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Friday, September 3, 2010

As his new memoir, A Journey, confirms, Tony Blair was a brilliant leader and godsend to George W. Bush, argues Tunku Varadarajan. If only the British had appreciated him...

Analysis and Commentary

A Fair and Balanced Address

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Obama steered clear of stirring verbiage, delivering a gracious hat-tip to Bush and a reassuring brushback of the terrorists. Tunku Varadarajan on what the president did well—and what he left unsaid...

Analysis and Commentary

Ignorant America

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Monday, August 30, 2010

How is it possible that a fifth of this country believes Obama is Muslim, without any evidence? Tunku Varadarajan on other cockamamie American beliefs—and why so many cling to them...

Analysis and Commentary

Why the GOP Should Embrace the Tea Party's Extreme Message

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Friday, August 27, 2010

Now that the "Palin Primaries" are behind us, Republicans may try to attract more voters by moving to the center. But Tunku Varadarajan says the GOP should continue to channel the activist group’s energy...

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