Charles Christopher William Cooke (born 4 November 1984), is a British-born American conservative journalist and a senior writer at National Review Online.
Cooke is a graduate of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where he studied Modern History and Politics under Gillian Peele and Clive Holmes.[3][4] Before attending Oxford, he attended King's College School, Cambridge, and read for his A-levels at Kimbolton School.[5] Cooke received a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford that was, later, promoted to Master of Arts by seniority, as is customary at Oxford and Cambridge for graduates.
Cooke emigrated to the United States in 2011, working as an intern for National Review.[6] He became a naturalized US citizen on February 23, 2018.[7]
Cooke has regularly criticized what he has described as the conservative movement's blindspot on race. In 2015, he wrote that slavery and segregation "presented challenges that eclipsed those that were posed during the Revolution ... the crime of the British in America was to deny British conceptions of good government to a people who had become accustomed to it, and to do so capriciously. The crime of white supremacy in the South was, in the words of Ida B. Wells, to 'cut off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distribute portions' of any person whom the majority disliked, and to do so in many cases as a matter of established public policy."[34] In an essay the previous year, Cooke noted that "for most of America's story, an entire class of people was, as a matter of course, enslaved, beaten, lynched, subjected to the most egregious miscarriages of justice, and excluded either explicitly or practically from the body politic. We prefer today to reserve the word 'tyranny' for its original target, King George III, or to apply it to foreign despots. But what other characterization can be reasonably applied to the governments that, ignoring the words of the Declaration of Independence, enacted and enforced the Fugitive Slave Act? How else can we see the men who crushed Reconstruction? How might we view the recalcitrant American South in the early 20th century? 'It' did 'happen here.'"[35]
Writing in the National Review in June 2021, Cooke confirmed earlier reporting by Maggie Haberman of The New York Times that Donald Trump was telling associates he would be reinstated as president by August. He wrote, in part, "The scale of Trump's delusion is quite startling. This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of the facts or an interesting foible, nor is it an irrelevant example of anguished post-presidency chatter. It is a rejection of reality, a rejection of law, and, ultimately, a rejection of the entire system of American government.[42]
Personal life
Cooke lives in Florida with his wife and two sons. Although his wife and children are Catholic,[43][non-primary source needed] Cooke describes himself as an atheist.[44] Cooke is a fluent French speaker and a self-confessed "Francophile."[45]
Works
Cooke, Charles C. W. The Conservatarian Manifesto: Libertarians, Conservatives, and the Fight for the Right's Future. New York, Crown Forum, 2015. ISBN9780804139724
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