Kurt Schlichter

American political commentator, writer, lawyer

Kurt Schlichter (born 24 December 1964 in Cincinnati) is an American political commentator, columnist, novelist, podcaster and lawyer. He is a senior columnist at Townhall, a former Los Angeles trial lawyer and a retired United States Army infantry colonel who commanded a cavalry reconnaissance squadron and served in Desert Storm and Kosovo, and he appears as a guest on Fox News and Newsmax. He is the author of the People's Republic series of Kelly Turnbull novels and the novel The Attack, as well as non-fiction including We'll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America. On X, he had about 462,000 followers in February 2023.