Paul Kengor, Ph.D., is professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, and a New York Times bestselling author of over 20 books. Among his bestsellers are God and Ronald Reagan (2004), The Communist (2012), The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism (2017), and The Devil and Karl Marx(2020).

He is the senior director and chief academic fellow at the Institute for Faith & Freedom and a former visiting fellow atthe Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Kengor is a longtime columnist for The American Spectator and was named editor in chief of the magazine in September 2022, to succeed founder R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. He is an internationally recognized authority on several subjects, particularly Ronald Reagan, the Cold War and Marxism/Communism, conservatism, faith and politics, and the American presidency.

As an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh in the late 1980s, Kengor was pre-med and minored in biochemistry/biophysics and microbiology. From 1987-91, he worked part-time and ultimately full-time upon graduation for the organ transplant team of Dr. Thomas Starzl. Kengor went on to get a master’s degree in international affairs from The American University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC. He received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He holds an honorary doctorate from Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. He and his wife, Susan, have eight children, two of which are adopted.

Rick Santorum burst on to the national stage at age 32,scoring the biggest upset of the 1990 congressional election beating a 14-year Democrat incumbent. He then led a group of freshmen called the Gang of Seven to expose corruption in Congress, leading to the endof 40 years of Democrat control of the House.
Two years later he took on another incumbent Democrat to be the youngest senator ever elected from Pennsylvania. In a time of increasing division, Santorum had a remarkable record of accomplishment, authoring the Welfare Reform Act of 1997, the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, the Combating Autism Act, the Syrian Accountability Act, and many others.

After losing his Senate race in the 2006 Democratic landslide, Rick got back into the fray by running for the 2012 Republican nomination. Rick won the biggest upset in Iowa Caucus history, eventually winning by 38 votes. He won 10 Republican primaries and caucuses, the most by a losing candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1976.

In May of 2014, he wrote Blue Collar Conservative: Recommitting to an America that Works. He stays involved in the direction of our country through his commentary on national cable news channels. Rick continues to chair and work with Patriot Voices, the PAC that was formed after his 2012 campaign to keep fighting for issues related to life, families, and working Americans.

Rick and his wife Karen have been married for 35 years. They have eight children, five of whom are married to amazing spouses and raising 12 grandchildren, the oldest of which is 5.