Robert R. Reilly
Robert R. Reilly is a writer and senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council specializing in U.S. foreign policy.
His career includes military service as a tank platoon leader, work at The Heritage Foundation, serving as Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan (1983-1985), and directing Voice of America (2001-2002).
He advised the Pentagon on information strategy and the Iraqi Information Ministry during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
His 2010 book "The Closing of the Muslim Mind" examined Islamic theology's evolution, arguing that the decline of rationalist schools caused civilizational stagnation—a thesis critics describe as "war literature" with problematic assumptions about contemporary Jihadism.
