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Megan McArdle
Megan Jennifer McArdle (born January 29, 1973) is an American columnist and blogger based in Washington, D.C. She writes for The Washington Post, mostly about economics, finance, and government policy.
McArdle began her writing career with a blog, "Live from the WTC", started in November 2001. Other publications she has worked for include The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and Bloomberg View. She published book reviews and opinion pieces in the New York Post, The New York Sun, Reason, The Guardian, and Salon.
McArdle was born and raised in New York City. Her father, Francis X. McArdle, was former managing director of the General Contractors Association of New York during the Koch, Dinkins, and Giuliani administrations. He served as Commissioner of Environmental Protection under Koch. Her mother, Joan McArdle, was a real estate broker for Prudential Douglas Elliman.
McArdle attended high school at Riverdale Country School. At the University of Pennsylvania, she earned a B.A. in English literature, followed by an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
During her junior year, she worked as a canvasser for the Public Interest Research Groups, the nonprofit founded by Ralph Nader. Her experience there accelerated her "transition from ultraliberal to libertarian." The organization was, she later wrote, "the most deceptive, evil place I've ever worked".
Dave Weigel called McArdle "the original blogger-turned-MSM journo". In 2012, David Brooks called McArdle one of the most influential bloggers on the right.
McArdle began blogging in November 2001 with a blog called "Live From The WTC", which arose from her employment with a construction firm involved in cleanup at the World Trade Center site following the September 11 attacks. She wrote under the pen name "Jane Galt", playing on the name "John Galt", a central character in Ayn Rand's Objectivist novel Atlas Shrugged. In November 2002 she renamed the site "Asymmetrical Information", a reference to the economics term of the same name. That blog had two other occasional contributors, Zimran Ahmed (writing under the pen name "Winterspeak"), and the pseudonymous "Mindles H. Dreck".
McArdle gained some online attention in May 2003 for coining what she termed "Jane's Law" in a blog post discussing political behaviors. The law, written with regard to the two main U.S. political parties, Republicans and Democrats, reads: "The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane."
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Megan McArdle
Megan Jennifer McArdle (born January 29, 1973) is an American columnist and blogger based in Washington, D.C. She writes for The Washington Post, mostly about economics, finance, and government policy.
McArdle began her writing career with a blog, "Live from the WTC", started in November 2001. Other publications she has worked for include The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and Bloomberg View. She published book reviews and opinion pieces in the New York Post, The New York Sun, Reason, The Guardian, and Salon.
McArdle was born and raised in New York City. Her father, Francis X. McArdle, was former managing director of the General Contractors Association of New York during the Koch, Dinkins, and Giuliani administrations. He served as Commissioner of Environmental Protection under Koch. Her mother, Joan McArdle, was a real estate broker for Prudential Douglas Elliman.
McArdle attended high school at Riverdale Country School. At the University of Pennsylvania, she earned a B.A. in English literature, followed by an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
During her junior year, she worked as a canvasser for the Public Interest Research Groups, the nonprofit founded by Ralph Nader. Her experience there accelerated her "transition from ultraliberal to libertarian." The organization was, she later wrote, "the most deceptive, evil place I've ever worked".
Dave Weigel called McArdle "the original blogger-turned-MSM journo". In 2012, David Brooks called McArdle one of the most influential bloggers on the right.
McArdle began blogging in November 2001 with a blog called "Live From The WTC", which arose from her employment with a construction firm involved in cleanup at the World Trade Center site following the September 11 attacks. She wrote under the pen name "Jane Galt", playing on the name "John Galt", a central character in Ayn Rand's Objectivist novel Atlas Shrugged. In November 2002 she renamed the site "Asymmetrical Information", a reference to the economics term of the same name. That blog had two other occasional contributors, Zimran Ahmed (writing under the pen name "Winterspeak"), and the pseudonymous "Mindles H. Dreck".
McArdle gained some online attention in May 2003 for coining what she termed "Jane's Law" in a blog post discussing political behaviors. The law, written with regard to the two main U.S. political parties, Republicans and Democrats, reads: "The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane."
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