Mona Charen
National columnist Mona Charen talks on "Useful Idiots"
Grove City College News Release - 10/20/03
GROVE CITY, Pa. - Syndicated columnist and political analyst Mona Charen will kick off the Grove City College Visiting Scholar Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters on the Grove City College campus.
Her topic, "Useful Idiots: Then and Now," is fashioned after her 2003 best-selling book.
Charen, who lives in the Washington, D.C., area, received her undergraduate degree at Barnard College, Columbia University, and also holds a degree in law from George Washington University. She began her career at National Review magazine where she served as editorial assistant.
In 1984, Charen joined the White House staff, serving first as Nancy Reagan's speechwriter and later as Associate Director of the Office of Public Liaison. In the latter post, she lectured widely on the administration's Central America policy. Also in her White House career, Charen worked in the Public Affairs office, helping to craft the President's overall communications strategy.
In 1986, Charen left the White House to join the presidential quest of then-Congressman Jack Kemp as a speechwriter. She launched her syndicated column in 1987 and it has become one of the fastest-growing columns in the industry. It is featured in more than 200 papers, including the Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Atlanta Journal and Constitution and the Washington Times.
Charen spent six years as a regular commentator on CNN's "Capital Gang" and has served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prizes. She is the author of the 2003 bestseller "Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First." Also a frequent guest on television and radio public affairs programs, Charen is married with three children.
President of the Hudson Institute Herbert London will continue the Visiting Scholar Lecture Series with his talk, "A Direction for Higher Education," at 7 p.m. Jan. 27, 2004, in the Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters.
Grove City College is listed as one of the Most Competitive colleges in the nation by Barron's. In its category, Grove City College is also ranked by U.S. News & World Report as No. 1 Best Value and No. 5 overall in the 2004 guide to America's Best Colleges. Grove City College has also been called a "best value" and a "hidden treasure" by guidance counselors in the Kaplan National High School Guidance Counselor Survey, and is also the No. 8 Best Academic Bang For Your Buck school according to the Princeton Review. Founded in 1876, it is located 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pa. With an enrollment of 2,300 students, it is a private Christian college teaching the liberal arts, sciences and engineering. It is an advocate of the free market economic system and accepts no federal funding. Tuition is about half of the national average for private colleges.
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