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Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy at The Heritage Foundation. He is also a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute.  </p> <p>Jay is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the <i>New York Times </i>bestsellers <i>Infiltrated </i>(2013) and <i>Indivisible </i>(2012); <i>The Human Advantage</i>; <i>Money, Greed, and God</i>, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; <i>The Hobbit Party </i>with Jonathan Witt; and <i>Eat, Fast, Feast</i>. His most recent book, with James Robison, is <em>Fight the Good Fight: How an Alliance of Faith and Reason Can Win the Culture War.</em></p> <p>He is also creator and executive producer of several documentaries, including three that have appeared widely on PBS. </p> <p>Jay’s articles and essays have been published in <i>The Harvard Business Review</i>, <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Barron’s</i>, <i>Washington Post</i>, <i>The New York Post</i>, <i>Newsweek</i>, <i>Forbes</i>, <i>Fox News</i>, <i>National Review Online, The Hill, Investor’s Business Daily</i>, <i>Washington Times</i>, <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i>, <i>The Huffington Post</i>, <i>The Federalist</i>, <i>The Daily Caller, </i>and many other publications.</p> <p>His work has been covered widely in publications such as <i>The New York Times, The Washington Post</i>, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>The Washington Times</i>, <i>Nature</i>, <i>Science</i>, <i>Astronomy</i>, <i>Physics Today</i>, <i>The Chronicle of Higher Education</i>, and<i> Congressional Quarterly Researcher</i>.</p> <p>Jay has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs, including <i>Larry King Live</i> (CNN), CBS Evening News, MSNBC, <i>Huckabee</i>, <i>Dayside, Fox and Friends, Studio B with Shepard Smith</i> (Fox News<i>),</i> <i>Glenn Beck TV</i>,<i> </i>PBS, CBN, TBN, and is a regular guest on<i> </i>EWTN.</p> <p>An experienced public speaker, he has spoken at academic conferences; college and university campuses in the United States, Europe, and Asia; many think tanks in the U.S. and Europe; public policy meetings; and on several occasions to members of the U.S. Congress and U.S. congressional staff. 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