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== Personal ==
== Personal ==
Anton is a classically trained chef. After resigning from the National Security Council in 2018, he came back to the White House for a day to work as a line cook in the kitchen, helping prepare a state dinner for President [[Emmanuel Macron]] of [[France]].<ref name="Landler">{{Cite news|last=Landler|first=Mark|date=2018-04-25|title=A National Security Aide's Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner (Published 2018)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/politics/michael-anton-white-house-state-dinner.html|access-date=2020-12-22|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
Anton is a classically trained chef. After resigning from the National Security Council in 2018, he came back to the White House for a day to work as a line cook in the kitchen, helping prepare a state dinner for President [[Emmanuel Macron]] of [[France]].<ref name="Landler">{{Cite news|last=Landler|first=Mark|date=2018-04-25|title=A National Security Aide's Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner (Published 2018)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/politics/michael-anton-white-house-state-dinner.html|access-date=2020-12-22|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

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== Books ==
*''The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style'', HarperCollins, 2006
* ''After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose'', 2019<ref name="RiceReview">{{Cite news |last1=Rice |first1=Tim |title=Reclaiming Our Lost Republic (book review) |url=https://www.city-journal.org/claremont-institute-administrative-state |access-date=12 May 2019 |publisher=[[City Journal]] |date=10 May 2019}}</ref>
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*''The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return'', [[Regnery Publishing]], 2020


== Selected publications ==
== Selected publications ==
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'''Books'''
* (As Nicholas Antongiavanni) ''The suit: a Machiavellian approach to men's style''. New York: Collins, 2006, {{ISBN|0-06089186-6}}

*{{Cite book|last=Antongiavanni|first=Nicholas|title=The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]|year=2006|isbn=9780060891862|location=New York}}
* {{Cite book|title=After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose|publisher=[[Encounter Books]]|year=2019|isbn=9781641770606}}
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*{{Cite book|title=The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return|publisher=[[Regnery Publishing]]|year=2020|isbn=9781684510610}}

'''Journal Publications'''

*{{Cite journal|date=August 7, 2010|title=Of Conquest: An Interpretation of Chapters 3-5 of Machiavelli's Prince|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3200/PPSC.38.1.33-46|journal=[[Perspectives on Political Science]]|volume=Volume 38 Issue 1|pages=33-46|doi=}}
*{{Cite journal|date=December 16, 2014|title=Socrates as Pickup Artist: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Memorabilia III 11|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10457097.2014.973736|journal=[[Perspectives on Political Science]]|volume=Volume 44 Issue 1|pages=40-54|doi=}}
*{{Cite journal|date=April 4, 2017|title=Spiritual Warfare in Machiavelli's Prince|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10457097.2016.1270678|journal=[[Perspectives on Political Science]]|volume=Volume 46 Issue 3|pages=169-186|doi=}}

'''Essays'''

*{{Cite magazine|date=November 27, 1995|title=Conservative bohemia|magazine=[[The Weekly Standard]]|edition=|volume=1 No. 11|page=46}}
*{{Cite magazine|date=April 15, 1996|title=The Hyper-entertaining of America|magazine=[[The Weekly Standard]]|edition=|volume=1 No. 30|page=20}}
* {{Citation | title=Iran and the Costs of Containment | journal=National Review | date=May 3, 2010}}.
* {{Citation | title=Iran and the Costs of Containment | journal=National Review | date=May 3, 2010}}.
* (As [[Publius Decius Mus (consul 340 BC)|Publius Decius Mus]]) {{Cite web| title=Toward a Sensible, Coherent Trumpism| work=The Unz Review| access-date=2018-04-09| date=2016-03-10| url=http://www.unz.com/article/toward-a-sensible-coherent-trumpism/}}
* (As [[Publius Decius Mus (consul 340 BC)|Publius Decius Mus]]) {{Cite web| title=Toward a Sensible, Coherent Trumpism| work=The Unz Review| access-date=2018-04-09| date=2016-03-10| url=http://www.unz.com/article/toward-a-sensible-coherent-trumpism/}}
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*'[https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/are-the-kids-altright/ Are the Kids Al(t)right?'], ''CRB'', Summer 2019.
*'[https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/are-the-kids-altright/ Are the Kids Al(t)right?'], ''CRB'', Summer 2019.
*[https://americanmind.org/salvo/which-way-jester-man/ 'Which Way, Jester Man?'], ''American Mind,'' October 28, 2019.
*[https://americanmind.org/salvo/which-way-jester-man/ 'Which Way, Jester Man?'], ''American Mind,'' October 28, 2019.
*{{Cite magazine|date=Fall 2019|title=The Great Tradition vs. Empire: From Xenophon to Machiavelli|url=https://isi.org/modern-age/the-great-tradition-vs-empire/|magazine=[[Modern Age]]|edition=|volume=61, no. 4|page=5}}
*{{Cite magazine|date=January 2020|title=The enemy is an idea|url=https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/1/the-enemy-is-an-idea|magazine=[[The New Criterion]]|edition=|volume=38 Issue 5|page=28-32}}
*[https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-coming-coup/ 'The Coming Coup?'], ''American Mind'', August 4, 2020.
*[https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-coming-coup/ 'The Coming Coup?'], ''American Mind'', August 4, 2020.
*'[https://lawliberty.org/forum/the-weather-undergrounds-lasting-victory/ The Weather Underground’s Lasting Victory'], ''Law & Liberty'', March 10, 2021.
*'[https://lawliberty.org/forum/the-weather-undergrounds-lasting-victory/ The Weather Underground’s Lasting Victory'], ''Law & Liberty'', March 10, 2021.

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Michael Anton
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Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications
In office
February 8, 2017 – April 8, 2018
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byBen Rhodes
Succeeded byGarrett Marquis[1][2]
Sarah Tinsley[1][2]
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BildungUniversity of California, Davis (BA)
St. John's College, Annapolis (MALA)
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Michael Anton (born 1969) is an American conservative essayist, speechwriter and former private-equity executive who was a senior national security official in the Trump administration. Under a pseudonym he wrote "The Flight 93 Election", an influential essay in support of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.[3][4]

Anton was Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications on the National Security Council under Trump.[5] He is a former speechwriter for Rupert Murdoch,[6] Rudy Giuliani, and Condoleezza Rice, and worked as director of communications at the investment bank Citigroup and as managing director of investing firm BlackRock.[7][3]

Life and career

Anton is of Italian and Lebanese descent. He grew up in Loomis, California. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis, and earned advanced degrees from St. John's College and the Claremont Graduate University.[6]

Under the pseudonym "Nicholas Antongiavanni" Anton wrote The Suit, a 2006 men's fashion guide book, which is a parody of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince.[8]

Anton joined the U.S. National Security Council as deputy assistant to the president for strategic communications in February 2017. He resigned on April 8, 2018, the evening before John R. Bolton became Trump's National Security Advisor.[9][10][11][12][13]

Anton joined Hillsdale College's Kirby Center Graduate School of Government in Washington, D.C., after leaving the Trump administration.[14]

Nils Gilman, an employee at the Berggruen Institute and co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project, compared Anton in a 2020 tweet to Robert Brasillach and said he "deserves the same fate" as Brasillach, who was executed by a firing squad.[15] The Claremont Institute, which manages the publication where Anton published his essay, condemned the comments.[16][non-primary source needed]

In December 2020, Trump appointed Anton to a four-year term on the National Board for Education Sciences, which advises the Department of Education on scientific research and investments.[17][18]

Ansichten

In a March 2016 essay written under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus (after the ancient Roman consul), Anton said, while defending the "America First" slogan, that the America First Committee (which included prominent antisemites and opposed the US entering World War II) had been "unfairly maligned."[19] Anton also argued that Islam "is a militant faith", and that "only an insane society" would take in Muslim immigrants after the 9/11 attacks.[20]

His pseudonymous September 2016 editorial "The Flight 93 Election", published in the Claremont Review of Books, compared the prospect of conservatives letting Hillary Clinton win the 2016 United States presidential election with passengers not charging the cockpit of the United Airlines aircraft hijacked by Al-Qaeda.[21][4][22][23][24][25][26][27] In the essay, Anton criticized conservatives who were skeptical of Donald Trump.[28] Anton also decried the "ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners," and called for "no more importing poverty, crime, and alien cultures", while calling the concept of Islamophobia and the Black Lives Matter movement "inanities". Anton further argued that the American Left was waging "wars on 'cis-genderism' - [cisgenderism being] formerly known as 'nature'".[28][29] Rush Limbaugh devoted the bulk of a radio show in September 2016 to a reading of the editorial.[30]

In Anton's 2019 book After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose, Anton argued that Trump constituted "the first serious national-political defense of the Constitution in a generation."[28] Trump praised the book.[28]

According to Carlos Lozada, book critic for The Washington Post, Anton's book primarily reprints text from his 2016 editorial, but with a newly added rumination of how dangerous the American left is.[28] Lozada wrote, "Anton spends virtually no time detailing or defending particular policies of the Trump administration; all that matters is the enemy. For Anton, Hillary Clinton is no longer the chief nemesis—the entire left is, along with sellout conservatives and any other forces countering the president. They contribute to a 'spiritual sickness' and 'existential despair' pervading not just the United States but all the West ... Apparently, Flight 93 did not end with the 2016 vote; we are forever on the plane, endlessly in danger, no matter who has seized the controls."[28]

Anton is also known as a critic of birthright citizenship in the United States, arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution does not mandate jus soli ("right of the soil") citizenship, and that the Amendment's use of the provision "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" excludes children born of illegal aliens.[31]

In September 2020, Anton wrote a conspiratorial essay titled "The Coming Coup?" in The American Mind; in the essay, Anton suggested that Democrats, aided by George Soros, were planning a coup d'etat to take over the United States.[19][32] The widely shared article was called a tipping point in spreading the unfounded claim, which was further popularized by The Federalist, DHJ Media and Dan Bongino.[32]

In his book The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return, Anton coined the term "celebration parallax" to describe a fact pattern that is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it.[33][34][non-primary source needed]

Personal

Anton is a classically trained chef. After resigning from the National Security Council in 2018, he came back to the White House for a day to work as a line cook in the kitchen, helping prepare a state dinner for President Emmanuel Macron of France.[35]

Selected publications

Books

  • Antongiavanni, Nicholas (2006). The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060891862.
  • After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose. Encounter Books. 2019. ISBN 9781641770606.
  • The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return. Regnery Publishing. 2020. ISBN 9781684510610.

Journal Publications

Essays

References

  1. ^ a b Vogel, Kenneth P., "Meet the Members of the ‘Shadow N.S.C.’ Advising John Bolton", New York Times, May 21, 2018. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  2. ^ a b Collins, Kaitlan, "Bolton adds two loyalists to the National Security Council", May 29, 2018. Citation as to appointment not position for Marquis. Tinsley and Marquis were jointly described as 'senior directors for strategic communications'. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  3. ^ a b Nguyen, Tina (February 23, 2017). "Machiavelli in the White House: Is This the Most Powerful Man in Trump's Administration?". Vanity Fair.
  4. ^ a b Chait, Jonathan. "America's Leading Authoritarian Is Working for Trump". NY Mag.
  5. ^ "Michael Anton | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  6. ^ a b Maas, Peter (February 12, 2017), "Dark Essays by White House Staffer Are the Intellectual Source Code of Trumpism", The intercept, archived from the original on March 7, 2017, retrieved March 7, 2017, In the beginning, Anton attended Claremont Graduate University, an incubator for conservative thinkers. He became a speechwriter and press secretary for New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, then took a mid-level job at the NSC in the George W. Bush administration. As the Weekly Standard reported, he was part of the team that pushed for the disastrous invasion of Iraq. Anton left the government in 2005 and became a speechwriter for Rupert Murdoch at News Corp., followed by several years in the communications shop at Citigroup, then a year and a half as a managing director at BlackRock, the asset management firm.
  7. ^ Johnson, Eliana; Stokols, Eli (February 7, 2017). 'What Steve Bannon Wants You to Read', Politico.
  8. ^ "The Dandy". Humanities: The Magazine for the National Endowment for the Humanities. March–April 2008. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  9. ^ Anton, Michael. "The Trump Doctrine". Foreign Policy. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  10. ^ Landler, Mark (April 25, 2018). "A National Security Aide's Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner (Published 2018)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  11. ^ Cerbin, Carolyn (April 8, 2018). "National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton to leave White House". USA Today. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  12. ^ Borger, Julian (April 9, 2018). "Syria provides John Bolton with first test as Trump's national security adviser". The Guardian. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  13. ^ Dawsey, Josh; Jaffe, Greg (April 10, 2018). "White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert resigns". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  14. ^ https://dc.hillsdale.edu/Profiles/Michael-Anton/
  15. ^ Hinderaker, John (September 23, 2020). "Are Liberals Responsible For the Consequences of Their Death Threats? (With Comment from Steve)". Power Line. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
  16. ^ "Dear Berggruen Institute: Renounce Death Threats Now". The American Mind. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
  17. ^ Sparks, Sarah D. (December 14, 2020). "Researchers Balk at Trump's Last-Minute Picks for Ed. Science Board". Education Week. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  18. ^ MervisDec. 11, Jeffrey; 2020; Pm, 9:10 (December 11, 2020). "Researchers decry Trump picks for education sciences advisory board". Science | AAAS. Retrieved December 18, 2020. {{cite web}}: |last2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ a b "A former Trump official dreamed up a George Soros-funded 'coup' and QAnon believes it". The Forward. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  20. ^ Schulberg, Jessica (February 8, 2017), "Trump Aide Derided Islam, Immigration and Diversity, Embraced an Anti-Semitic Past", The Huffington post – via Foreign Affairs.
  21. ^ "The Anonymous Pro-Trump 'Decius' Now Works Inside The White House". February 2, 2017.
  22. ^ Schulberg 2017.
  23. ^ Celeste, Katz. "Bannon isn't the only shadowy far-right figure in the White House - meet Michael Anton". Mic.
  24. ^ Leonhardt, David (February 3, 2017). "The Unmasking of a Trumpist". The New York Times.
  25. ^ "Republicans: You must impeach President Trump". The Week. February 3, 2017.
  26. ^ Gray, Rosie. "The Anti-Democracy Movement Influencing the Right". The Atlantic.
  27. ^ Maas 2017.
  28. ^ a b c d e f Lozada, Carlos (2019). "Thinking for Trump: Other presidents had a brain trust. But the intellectuals backing this White House are a bust". The Washington Post.
  29. ^ Anton, Michael (September 5, 2016). "The Flight 93 Election". Claremont Review of Books. Upland, California, US: Claremont Institute. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  30. ^ "The chilling tributes to Rush Limbaugh". theweek.com. February 18, 2021. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  31. ^ Anton, Michael. "Birthright Citizenship: A Response to My Critics". Claremont. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
  32. ^ a b Davey Alba, Riled Up: Misinformation Stokes Calls for Violence on Election Day, New York Times (October 13, 2020).
  33. ^ "From Death Threats to Lies". The American Mind. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
  34. ^ Anton, Michael (2020). The stakes : America at the point of no return. Washington, DC. ISBN 978-1-68451-073-3. OCLC 1162420553.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  35. ^ Landler, Mark (April 25, 2018). "A National Security Aide's Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner (Published 2018)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
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