Paul Kengor, Ph.D., is professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, and a New York Times bestselling author of over
a dozen books. He is senior director and chief academic fellow at the Institute for Faith &, Freedom and formerly served as visiting fellow at the
Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His articles have appeared in publications from the Washington Post and USA Today to the
Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, he is a longtime columnist and senior editor for The American Spectator. Dr.
Kengor is an internationally recognized authority on (among other topics) Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, communism, socialism, and conservatism.
Dr. Kengor is frequently interviewed by the BBC, Fox News, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, EWTN, the Christian Broadcasting Network, by radio hosts such as Glenn Beck,
Mark Levin, and Bill Bennett, and by TV personalities like Megyn Kelly, Bill O’Reilly, and Joe Scarborough. He often writes for National Catholic Register and Crisis Magazine. Dr. Kengor’s books have been published by HarperCollins, Simon &, Schuster, Harvard University Press, Oxford University
Press, Ignatius Press, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, HarperPerennial, and many others. In 2017, he released what has been described as his
“magnum opus,” A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century. Among his bestsellers
are the 2012 book, The Communist, and his 2004 classic, God and Ronald Reagan. Several of his books are the basis for major films,
including the film The Divine Plan (Robert Orlando, producer), which screened in theaters nationwide in 2019. In the summer of 2020, he will
be publishing The Devil and Karl Marx (St. Benedict Press/TAN Books).
Kengor is a frequent public speaker, at venues such as the Ronald Reagan Library, the Reagan Ranch Center, National Press Club, Heritage Foundation, Princeton
University’s James Madison Program, American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Strategic &, International Studies, the Gerald Ford Library, the
National Presbyterian Church, the Fulton Sheen Cultural Center, and at colleges including the University of Virginia, the College of William &
Mary, the Naval Academy, and Notre Dame University.
Kengor received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and master’s degree from The American
University’s School of International Service. He holds an honorary doctorate from Franciscan University. He and his wife, Susan, have eight children,
two of which are adopted.
Readings &, Resources
- “Teen Vogue to Teen Girls: Marx Good, Reagan Bad,” by Paul Kengor, American Spectator
- The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration,
by Paul Kengor (TAN Books) - “Cultural Marxism and Its Conspirators,” American Spectator series by Paul Kengor (part one & part two)
Resources from the Ruth Institute
- “Toxic ideologies and how to detect them,” Dr J’s FB chat, May 6, 2020 (full text here on Dr J’s blog)
- “Why power mongers love impossible goals,” Dr J’s FB Chat, May 7, 2020 (full text here)
- “Scapegoats in paradise,” Dr J’s Chat,
May 8, 2020 (full text here)