Pratik Chougule is the author of American Universities in the Middle East and US Foreign Policy and co-host of the Star Spangled Gamblers podcast. He was a visiting fellow at The Fund for American Studies, who worked in the State Department under President George W. Bush. He was also an editor of The American Conservative and The National Interest, and a researcher at Boston College and the Hoover Institution. Pratik lives in Washington DC. Follow him on Twitter.