Philip Klein is an American author and journalist who is the editor of National Review Online. Klein previously worked as the executive editor of the Washington Examiner, as a Washington correspondent for The American Spectator,^[2] and as a financial reporter for Reuters. He become editor of the conservative publication National Review Online in March 2021.^[3][4]

Born Jewish, Klein grew up in New York City.^[5] He graduated from George Washington University with degrees in history and economics and has a master's degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Klein is a former Reuters reporter.^[6] He worked for the American Spectator before joining the Washington Examiner in 2011.^[7] In 2014, he became the commentary editor of the same paper.^[7] In 2015, Klein was promoted to managing editor of the paper,^[8] and in 2018, he was named executive editor.^[9]

In September 2012, while Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was chair of the Democratic National Committee, Schultz accused Klein of "deliberately misquoting" her. In a fact check prompted by Klein's release of the audio, The Washington Post concluded that "Klein's quote was exactly accurate, meaning Wasserman Schultz falsely accused the Examiner of misquoting her."^[10]

In 2018, Klein reported on a tweet by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about Department of Defense budgets which he called a "$21 trillion mistake" revealing a lack of understanding of government budgeting.^[11][12][13]

Klein's 2019 book, Fear Your Future: How the Deck Is Stacked Against Millennials and Why Socialism Would Make It Worse, released by Templeton Press in October 2019,^[14] was discussed on C-SPAN in November 2019.^[15] The book includes essays by other writers including David Harsanyi and Ramesh Ponnuru.^[16]

Klein's 2015 book, Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the Government Takeover of Health Care, laid out the policy approaches available to the bill's opponents.^[17][18]

In 2016, Klein left the Republican Party in protest over the nomination of Donald Trump, tweeting out his announcement and the completed voter registration form on 3 May 2016.^[19]

• Philip Klein (October 2019). Fear Your Future: How the Deck is Stacked Against Millennials and Why Socialism Would Make it Worse. Templeton Press. ISBN 978-1599475738.^[16][20]
• Philip Klein (January 2015). Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the Government Takeover of Health Care. Washington Examiner. ISBN 978-0692361702.^[21][22][23]
• Philip Klein (May 2012). Conservative Survival in the Romney Era (e-book). Philip Andrew Klein. ASIN B0084PTQUS.^[24]

• Philip Klein at National Review
• Templeton Press's biography of Philip Klein