Steven F. Hayward

Steven F. Hayward ( born October 16, 1958) is an American conservative author, commentator and political scientist.

Hayward earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Lewis and Clark College and a Ph.D. in American Studies and a Master of Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School. He worked at the Claremont Institute from 1984 to 1987 and was from 1985 to 1986 Richard M. Weaver Fellow at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. 1987 to 1991 he led the Golden State Center for Policy Studies.

In 1987 he received for his political comments to Feliz Morley Memorial Prize.

1990-2001 Hayward commented at Reason Magazine. He worked at the Transport Council of the government of California from 1996 to 2001 and held several teaching positions at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI ). He worked after 1992 as a Senior Fellow at the think tank Pacific Research Institute. Since April 2009 he is Frederick Weyerhaeuser Fellow at AEI.

Articles by Hayward appeared in The Weekly Standard, National Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Policy Review, The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Daily News, and a number of further international newspapers and magazines.

Hayward has, among other things in the film An Inconvenient Truth ... Or Convenient Fiction? Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth statements in partially confirmed as others criticized as exaggerated Untergangsprophezeihungen. Similarly, he has represented a climate skeptic position at two hearings held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

He is the author of a multivolume biography of Ronald Reagan and other books on political science topics and is an important representative of conservative and libertarian currents in U.S. politics.

Private life

Hayward is married to the law professor Allison Hayward.