William Saletan

For the folksinger, music educator and dance leader (a distant cousin) see Tony Saletan

William Saletan is the national correspondent at Slate.com.

William Saletan, a Jewish native of Texas, graduated from Swarthmore College in 1987.

In the fall of 2004, Saletan wrote nearly daily columns covering the ups and downs of the 2004 presidential race. He currently writes Slate.com's "Human Nature" column. Previously, he wrote "Frame Game", which analyzed the way current events are spun by politicians and the media and "Ballot Box", a column devoted to politics and policy.

In 2004, he wrote the book Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War.

A self-described "liberal Republican", Saletan came out strongly against the re-election of George W. Bush. He described his disenchantment with the modern Republican Party in a series of dispatches from the 2004 Republican Convention.

Saletan has written several articles about bioethics and sexual ethics, criticizing what he sees as homophobia within the Roman Catholic Church.

Saletan supports legally recognizing same-sex marriages.

While Saletan initially argued in favor of George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq, later, as part of a Slate.com series marking the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, Saletan described the lessons he had come to learn, stating, "I wish I'd absorbed these lessons before the war. The best I can do now is remember them before the next one."

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