Specialties: U.S. Foreign Policy, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Islamist Movement, Middle East Culture, Iran, Individual Rights, Moral Foundations of Freedom, Ethics in Foreign Policy

Elan Journo is a fellow in foreign policy at the Ayn Rand Institute, and the director ARI's Policy division. His book, Winning the Unwinnable War, looks at what went wrong with America's response to 9/11—and what we should do going forward.

He has appeared on Fox News Channel, PBS and NPR affiliates, and numerous nationally syndicated radio programs, including The Thom Hartmann Program. He has been a guest commentator on Front Page with Allen Barton on PJTV.com.

His articles have appeared in, among many others, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, and Canada's Globe and Mail.  Mr. Journo has spoken at numerous college campuses, including Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, New York University, and George Mason University.

Contact

ejourno@aynrand.org
Office: 949-222-6550
Media inquiries: 202-609-7470

Books

Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism (Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books: 2009)

Articles and Commentary

Articles and Essays

Review essay: Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions by John Agresto
The "Forward Strategy" for Failure
The Jihad on America
Exposing Anti-Muslim "Conspiracies"

Op-Eds

Our Self-Crippled War

Obama Whitewashes Iran

With or Without Nukes, Iran is a Mortal Threat
The Price of Bush's Commitment to Palestinian Statehood
The U.S.-Israeli Suicide Pact

[More op-eds by Elan Journo]

Blog Posts

War on (fill in the misleading blank)
Disconnected dots
The impact of Islamic ideas in the Middle East
Where we stand with Iran, 30 years after the hostage crisis
Draw Mohammad, risk you life?
McChrystal's other—deadly—scandal

[More blog posts by Elan Journo]

Video and Audio

Fox News Channel

Video: PJTV [watch]

Radio: "Dealing with Iran" [listen]

[More video and audio by Elan Journo]

Talks, Events, and Lectures

Our Unwinnable Wars? [watch] [panel discussion, talk]
Iran, the Islamist threat, and American Policy [watch]
Road to 9/11 [watch] [talk]
What's America's Stake in the Arab-Israeli? Conflict [talk]
The Jihad on America [talk]
The Islamic World and the West Today [lecture course]
Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict [lecture course]
The Distinctiveness of an Egoistic Foreign Policy [lecture course]