William Saletan
For the folksinger, music educator and dance leader (a distant cousin) see Tony Saletan
William Saletan is the national correspondent at Slate.com.
Background and education
William Saletan, a Jewish native of Texas, graduated from Swarthmore College in 1987.
Work
Career at Slate
Saletan gained recognition in the fall of 2004 with nearly daily columns covering the ups and downs of the 2004 presidential race. He currently writes Slate.com's "Human Nature" column. Previously, he wrote "Frame Game", which analyzed the way current events are spun by politicians and the media and "Ballot Box", a column devoted to politics and policy.
Books
In 2004, he wrote the book Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War.
Views
A self described "liberal Republican", Saletan came out strongly against the re-election of George W. Bush. He described his disenchantment with the modern Republican Party in a series of dispatches from the 2004 Republican Convention.
Saletan has written several articles about bioethics and sexual ethics, criticizing what he sees as homophobia within the Roman Catholic Church.
