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Erich J. Prince

Erich J. Prince is the editor-in-chief of Merion West. With a background in journalism and media criticism, he has contributed to newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer and The News & Observer, as well as to online outlets including Quillette and The Hill. Erich has also spoken at various conferences and events about his work in journalism. He studied political science at Yale University.

Portrait of Erich J. Prince

Interviews

114 pieces

  1. Reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue” in Modern New York

  2. Samuel G. Freedman: What a Young Hubert Humphrey Can Teach Us

  3. Gov. Brian Kemp: How to Stand up to Corporate Pressure

  4. Rep. Denver Riggleman: Bringing Internet to Rural Areas

  5. Rep. Madeleine Dean: Making Community College a Priority

  6. Gov. Brian Kemp: His Approach for Georgia

  7. Sen. David Perdue: Making Washington More Results-Oriented

  8. One-on-One with Rep. Dwight Evans

  9. One-on-One with Howard Dean

  10. Interview: Nicholas Christakis on His Latest Book

  11. Interview with Senator Isakson: Putting Veterans First

  12. Interview with Mike Gravel: His Priorities in Running for President

  13. Interview: A Pulitzer Prize Winner’s Advice to Young Journalists

  14. Interview with Former Rep. Tom Davis: Can Earmarks Fix Congress?

  15. Lincoln Chafee Joins Erich Prince: Lessons from Running for President

  16. Vice President Mondale Comments on Today’s Democratic Party

  17. Interview: One-on-One with Congresswoman Susan Wild

  18. Interview: One-on-One with Congressman Jody Hice

  19. Interview: Jonathan Haidt on What Underlies Polarization in America

  20. Interview with Nassir Ghaemi: Can Mental Illness Make More Effective Politicians?

  21. Interview: How Dollars and Cents Propel Sensational Media Coverage

  22. An Interview with Gov. Pat McCrory

  23. The Man Who Chronicled the Abuses at Holmesburg Prison

  24. Can a Photograph Change History? Sitting Down with Ron Haviv

  25. “No Labels”: An Interview with Joe Lieberman

  26. Political Profile: An Interview with Lincoln Chafee

  27. Colorado Today: An Interview with Gov. Hickenlooper

  28. Interview: The Man Who Photographed Tiananmen Square

  29. The Breakdown of American Culture: An Interview with Prof. Amy Wax

  30. An Interview with Dave Rubin: We Need to Listen to One Another

  31. Ben Shapiro on the State of Modern Conservatism

  32. What Marshall McLuhan Still Has to Teach Us: A Conversation with Grant Havers

  33. Wilfred McClay: The Civilizational Role of the Bible in the American Founding

  34. Why Charles Murray Is Taking Religion Seriously

  35. Alan Dershowitz: On His Magnum Opus, The Preventive State

  36. Senator Lankford's Timely Reminder of the American Ethos

  37. Christopher Ruddy: Newsmax Is Eyeing an IPO

  38. Former Congressman Jody Hice: “Sacred Trust”

  39. Slavoj Žižek: “Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist”

  40. Lord Conrad Black: Insights from the Ancient World

  41. Daniel A. Cox: Taking the Pulse of Gen Z

  42. Slavoj Žižek: “Freedom: A Disease Without Cure”

  43. Wessie du Toit: When a Society Decenters Leisure

  44. Matt Johnson: “How Hitchens Can Save the Left”

  45. Clay Routledge: Breaking Ground in Psychology, Outside of the Academy

  46. Shawne Merriman: From the NFL to “Xtreme Fighting”

  47. Waller Newell: The Characteristics of Tyranny

  48. Faisal Saeed Al Mutar: Iraq, 20 Years After the Fall of Baghdad

  49. Tabia Lee: What Happened at De Anza College

  50. John Cribb: What We Can Learn from Abraham Lincoln

  51. Lance Morrow: “The Noise of Typewriters”

  52. William Jacobson: What Happened to Campus?

  53. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb: The Activist Class Takes Aim at Medicine

  54. Heather Mac Donald: Medicine Under Fire

  55. Holmesburg: Calling for an Apology from the City of Philadelphia

  56. Stephen Hicks: Challenges in Contemporary Education

  57. Will Marshall: Where Are the Moderates?

  58. Harris Poll’s Will Johnson: Why Polling Still Matters

  59. Stephen Hicks: Lessons from the Canadian Trucker Protest

  60. Dwight Evans: The VICTIM Act and Combating Crime

  61. Pat McCrory: How to Get a Handle on the Crime Surge

  62. James Lindsay: “Counter Wokecraft” and Responses to Institutional Takeover

  63. Video: Merion West Co-Founders Speak at Alma Mater

  64. Sean Spicer: The Steele Dossier and “Radical Nation”

  65. Anne Kim: The AP Exam and the Standardized Testing Debate

  66. Kay Hymowitz: The Devaluation of Higher Education

  67. Mary Harrington: Family Formation in the 2020s

  68. Elena Thérèse-Rose: Making Catholicism Shareable (Especially on the Web)

  69. Jonathan Church: Getting to the Bottom of the Robin DiAngelo Craze

  70. Rep. Denver Riggleman: Reflecting on His Two Years in D.C.

  71. Interview: Rep. Susan Wild on How Congress Can Respond to the Pandemic

  72. Interview: Rep. Jody Hice on “Defund the Police” and Big Tech Censorship

  73. Why Yasmine Mohammed Is Speaking out Against Islam (Part II)

  74. Why Yasmine Mohammed Is Speaking out Against Islam

  75. Interview: Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Getting the Two Parties to Work Together

  76. Georgia’s AG: Fighting Gangs and Human Trafficking

  77. What Happens to Those Who Investigate Government Corruption

  78. One-on-One with Rep. Dwight Evans (Part II)

  79. Interview: Rep. Madeleine Dean at Border Detention Facilities

  80. Wayne Messam, The Florida Mayor Running for President

  81. Norman Ornstein Joins Erich Prince: “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks”

  82. Reps. Madeleine Dean and Mike Thompson Comment on Gun Violence

  83. Interview: Greg Lukianoff on “The Coddling of the American Mind”

  84. Interview: Rick Ungar on His New Project “The Daily Centrist”

  85. Douglas Lain Joins Erich Prince: Running a Boutique Publishing Label

  86. Helen Pluckrose Joins Erich Prince to Tell Areo’s Story

  87. Prof. Randy Barnett Joins Erich Prince to Discuss “Con Law”

  88. My Time in the Senate: An Interview with Saxby Chambliss

  89. Susan Wild: Why I’m Running for Congress

  90. Joe Lieberman: Staying above Partisanship

  91. Turning the Page in Brazil: An Interview with Priscila Chammas

  92. What is Virtue? A Talk with Professor Christian B. Miller

  93. Civil Liberties in a Polarized Time: An Interview with Nadine Strossen

  94. Sparing Women and Children from Violence: Speaking with Dr. Samantha Nutt

  95. Jim Martin: Being a “Red State” Democrat

  96. Interview: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer of Seton Hall Dorm Fire

  97. FEMA Director during Katrina: How Prepared Are We for Disaster?

  98. Interview: Jenny Wilson Wants to be Utah’s Senator

  99. The Victim Culture Produces No Winners: Heather Mac Donald’s Take

  100. Free Speech on Campus (and Elsewhere): An Interview with Eugene Volokh

  101. Interview with Charles Wheelan: Let’s Get More Independents in American Politics

  102. Interview with Bush Sr. Speechwriter: From Barbara Bush to the Tea Party

  103. An Interview with David Shafer: His Vision for Georgia

  104. Interview: Jay Bahadur, The Man who Chronicled the Somali Pirates

  105. Interview with Stephen Halbrook: The Supreme Court and Guns

  106. Interview: Jewish Activist Rebecca Wald is Working to End Circumcision

  107. From Theater Major to NYC Council: An Interview with Jumaane Williams

  108. Interview with Sen. Isakson: Combating Veteran Suicide and Addiction

  109. Polling is Alive and Well: An Interview with Gallup’s Editor-in-Chief

  110. From Prague Spring to Now: An Interview with Larry Reed

  111. Nixon Staffer: The Similarities Between Watergate and Mueller

  112. Addiction Specialist: The Real Cause of the Opioid Crisis

  113. An Interview with Anti-Aging’s Pioneer

  114. Interview: Rep. Jason Altmire on Being a Congressional Moderate

Articles

66 pieces

  1. These People All Know Each Other
    Legacy

  2. On the Music of John Prine
    Legacy

  3. Young Voters Do Not Belong Inevitably to the Left
    Legacy

  4. The Press Mustn’t Ignore America’s Gang Problem
    Legacy

  5. Rep. Susan Wild’s Bipartisan Initiative for Pandemic-related Child Care
    Legacy

  6. “Holding the Powerful Accountable”—Empty Words?
    Op-Ed

  7. Going Deeper Than a Famous Quotation or Two
    Legacy

  8. Merion West: Why We Do What We Do
    Legacy

  9. Editor’s Choice: The Best Interviews of 2019
    Legacy

  10. Editor’s Choice: The Best Articles of 2019
    Legacy

  11. Editor’s Choice: The Best Political Speeches of the Past 55 Years
    Legacy

  12. Editor’s Choice: The Best Articles of 2018
    Legacy

  13. Editor’s Choice: The Best Interviews of 2018
    Legacy

  14. The Biggest Problem When It Comes to Polarization
    Op-Ed

  15. What Feminism Means Today: Speaking with Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers
    Legacy

  16. Leisure: When It Becomes an Unexpected Curse
    Legacy

  17. Political Journalism: Rarely Scratching the Surface of Life
    Legacy

  18. You’re Probably Not Actually a Libertarian
    Legacy

  19. In Defense of Zoos
    Essays

  20. Ben Sasse’s Dignity in the Face of Death
    Essays

  21. Public Servant in Name Only: Rob Bresnahan Hardly Alone
    Essays

  22. We Ought Not Tolerate Reckless Driving
    Essays

  23. Blues Run the Game
    Essays

  24. You Can (and Perhaps Should) Repeat Yourself
    Legacy

  25. Bruce Springsteen Turns 75

  26. When Glen Campbell Sang “Galveston”
    Legacy

  27. On Not Responding to Email

  28. The Politicians Who Almost Never Were
    Legacy

  29. Taking a Second Look at Nikki Haley
    Op-Ed

  30. Urgently Reconsidering the Doctrine of Multiculturalism

  31. Should You Read the Same Book Twice?
    Criticism

  32. How Do They Still Have Jobs?
    Op-Ed

  33. Democrats’ Endless Anti-Institutionalism
    Op-Ed

  34. A Once Unnecessary Reminder: Criticism Produces Good Works
    Criticism

  35. A Government Is More Than Capable of Addressing Multiple Crises At Once
    Op-Ed

  36. Fetterman v. Oz (And a Love Letter to a Conflicted Pennsylvania)
    Personal Essay

  37. Peter Buxtun, the Hero of Tuskegee, 50 Years On
    Op-Ed

  38. Editor’s Choice: The Best Interviews of 2021
    Legacy

  39. Editor’s Choice: The Best Articles of 2021
    Legacy

  40. “Is Nothing Sacred?”
    Legacy

  41. she asked me to get her a green card
    Personal Essay

  42. Politics: Not an End in Itself
    Legacy

  43. How Things End
    Legacy

  44. The Press and Violence against Asian-Americans
    Legacy

  45. Independent Wealth: a Prerequisite for Speaking Up?
    Legacy

  46. When They Say Abortion and Capital Punishment Are One and the Same
    Legacy

  47. Editor’s Choice: the Best Interviews of 2020
    Legacy

  48. Editor’s Choice: the Best Articles of 2020
    Legacy

  49. “The American People”—a Phrase Worth Discarding
    Op-Ed

  50. And They’ve Come for the Founders
    Legacy

  51. Columbus Belongs Not Only to History
    Legacy

  52. President of Civil War Museum: Similarities Between the Elections of 1860 and 2016
    Legacy

  53. Interview: Actor Antonio Sabàto Is Running for Congress
    Legacy

  54. The Speech That Would Have Been Read If the Moon Landing Failed
    Legacy

  55. Zoltan Istvan: Why Are We Not Investing in Anti-Aging?
    Legacy

  56. An Interview with Aaron Spring
    Legacy

  57. Merion West Interviews Zoltan Istvan, Candidate for Governor of CA
    Legacy

  58. Merion West Interviews Shiva Ayyadurai
    Legacy

  59. Tim Young is Transforming Conservative Comedy
    Legacy

  60. Why Are there No Skyscrapers between Midtown and the Financial District?
    Legacy

  61. Does the TSA Go too Far?
    Legacy

  62. The Power in Photographing Tragedy
    Legacy

  63. The Loss of Intellectual Humility
    Legacy

  64. The Dangers of Yale Renaming Its History
    Legacy

  65. Will History See Another “New Nixon”?
    Legacy

  66. Where Are the Flags in U.S. Universities?
    Legacy

Arts

3 pieces

  1. Dimorphism
    Poetry

  2. Woodmont
    Poetry

  3. Warding off Scurvy
    Poetry