Richard M. Reinsch II is editor in chief of the Civitas Institute’s Civitas Outlook. He was the founding editor of the online magazine Law & Liberty. Immediately before joining Civitas, he was the editor-in-chief and director of publications at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). Previously, he served as director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and AWC Family Foundation Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

He is the editor of , a new volume of scholarly essays published by the Civitas Institute on the Declaration of Independence.

Reinsch’s books include University Press of Kansas, 2019), which he coauthored with Peter Lawler, and (ISI Books, 2010). He has also been widely published in the popular press and in policy journals, including Perspectives on Political Science, The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, National Affairs, Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Spectator, Religion & Liberty, Modern Age, National Review, and Washington Examiner. He holds a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.