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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Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Controversial Call to Arms

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Saturday, May 22, 2010

In her new book, Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of escaping to America and says the Muslim world needs a revolution in how it treats women and modernity. Tunku Varadarajan salutes her necessary and powerful words...

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Expect a Political Cleansing

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Monday, May 17, 2010

Voters’ judgment on Tuesday is likely to be cruel, says Tunku Varadarajan. But angry Republicans’ mutiny against wussy incumbents on primary day will help them beat the Democrats come November...

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Wall Street's Fortune Teller

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Friday, May 14, 2010

No one on Wall Street has been as prescient about the economic crisis as Nouriel Roubini. He talks with Tunku Varadarajan about his new book, Crisis Economics, why Goldman Sachs is wrong, and the future of England...

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What Cameron Is Up Against

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Now that Britain’s political wrangling has been sorted out, the country shouldn’t expect romance—just a solution to its fiscal mess. Tunku Varadarajan offers 10 post-election insights, from Brown’s dark cloud to the Liberal Democrats’ new status...

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10 Truths About the British Vote

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Gordon Brown's a dour loser and Nick Clegg's anti-U.S., so Americans should root for David Cameron: at least he's younger than Obama. Tunku Varadarajan's rough guide to the U.K. elections...

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Lloyd Blankfein's PR Coup

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Saturday, May 1, 2010

Last night on Charlie Rose, the Goldman CEO said everything people needed to hear about his firm's role in the financial meltdown—and he just may have kick-started the healing process between his firm and the American public...

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The Hearing From Hell

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Crass, grandstanding senators squared off against smug and evasive bankers. Tunku Varadarajan on how Goldman Sachs’ sorry performance on Capitol Hill proves Wall Street is on another planet...

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Say 'Hell No' to Arizona

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Sunday, April 25, 2010

The state's harsh new immigration law sanctions government intrusion that far exceeds any part of Obamacare—and yet some broader good may come of it....

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Obama's Phony Bank Debate

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Daily Beast
Thursday, April 22, 2010

The president invited ideas on financial reform in Thursday's speech. But his rush to shove through a bill shows his true colors. Tunku Varadarajan on why bad reform is worse than no reform at all...

An Ally Worth the Trouble

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The president has made an artful overture to India, the world’s largest democracy. But the relationship demands careful tending. By Tunku Varadarajan.

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