Who Is Robert Bidinotto?
I'm an award-winning author, editor, and lecturer. Most recently, I was editor-in-chief of The New Individualist, a Washington-based monthly magazine of politics and culture. In 2007, I received the magazine industry’s top honor for editorial excellence—the Folio gold “Eddie” Award—for my cover feature in the March 2007 issue, which examined factionalism in the conservative movement.
While writing high-profile investigative pieces as a former Staff Writer for Reader’s Digest, I earned an international reputation as an authority on criminal justice and environmentalism. Perhaps most famous was my article “Getting Away with Murder” in the July 1988 Reader’s Digest. That investigative piece stirred a national controversy about crime and prison furlough programs during the 1988 presidential campaign, and it is widely credited with having affected the outcome of the election. In 1989, the article was honored by the American Society of Magazine Editors as one of five finalists for the National Magazine Award for “Best Magazine Article of the Year in the Public Interest Category.”
In 1995, I authored Criminal Justice? The Legal System vs. Individual Responsibility. With a foreword by John Walsh of the “
My many writings on environmental issues include investigative articles for Reader’s Digest on global warming and the 1989 Alar scare. My exposé of
My hundreds of articles, essays, columns, editorials, book and film reviews also have appeared in the Washington Times, the Boston Herald, Success, The American Spectator, City Journal, Reason, Writer’s Digest, and many more publications. I was honored with the Free Press Association’s prestigious Mencken Award in 1985 for “Best Feature Story,” and I've received recognitions from the
I'm a frequent public speaker, and I've appeared as a guest on scores of broadcast talk programs including “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” CBS radio’s “Crosstalk,” CNN’s “Sonya Live,” “Geraldo,” Air
With my wife and our stridently individualistic cat, Luna, I make my home on the Chesapeake Bay in
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