Charles C. Johnson Biography

At 22, Charles is a graduate of Milton Academy and Claremont McKenna where he studied government and economics. At Claremont, he edited the Claremont Independent and founded the Claremont Conservative, an award-winning daily campus website. There he exposed abuses like the banning of two pro-life students from campus for asking questions of a pro-choice speaker. Outrage over the ban resulted in a complete overturning of their sentence and an administrative apology just seven days later. His honors thesis is on the political thought of Calvin Coolidge.

Charles has worked for Charles Kesler at The Claremont Review of Books, Carl Schramm at the Kauffman Foundation, Seth Lipsky at The New York Sun, and Alan Dershowitz at Harvard Law School. While still in college, Charles started his own opposition research firm where he has worked for several candidates and helped pay his way through school. His written work has been published in The Claremont Review of Books, City Journal (online), National Review Online, The American (online), The Weekly Standard (online), Andrew Breitbart’s sites, The Pope Center for Higher Education (online), American Thinker (online), and The New York Sun. He has spoken before the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education on the use of technology to enhance freedom.

Charles has won several awards this year, including the Harrison Fellowship at the Salvatori Center, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Honors Fellowship, the Bartley Fellowship at the Wall Street Journal, the Special Alumni Award at the Phillips Foundation, as well as the Eric Breindel Collegiate Award.

After completing both the Breindel and the Bartley internships together this summer, he plans to return to L.A., obtain his driver’s license, get married, and start another business that prices car insurance in a technologically novel way.

23 years old by now. That explains a couple of things.