Fred Kaplan

Fred Kaplan is the national-security columnist for Slate as well as the author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power (2008) and The Wizards of Armageddon (1983). A former staff reporter for the Boston Globe, based in Washington, Moscow, and New York, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and others. In the late 1970s, he worked as defense-policy adviser to Rep. Les Aspin. He has a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T.