Matthew Continetti is co-founder and editor in chief of the Washington Free Beacon and a fellow at the National Review Institute. The author of The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine (Doubleday, 2006) and The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star (Sentinel, 2009), his articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, and Wall Street Journal. He lives in Virginia. He can be reached at comments@freebeacon.com.