Joseph Loconte

Joseph Loconte is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center in Washington, DC where he is co-director of the Evangelicals and Civic Life program. A regular Moderator, he was named a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum in 2005.

For the 2006–07 academic year, he is a distinguished visiting professor at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy.

Until 2006, Mr. Loconte served as the William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and a Free Society at The Heritage Foundation, where he examined the role of religious belief in strengthening and reforming civil society. Earlier in his career he was deputy editor of Policy Review. He is the editor of the book The End of Illusions: Religious Leaders Confront Hitler’s Gathering Storm (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). His earlier book Seducing the Samaritan: How Government Contracts Are Reshaping Social Services (Boston: Pioneer Institute, 1997) documents the destructive impact of government funding on private charities.

Mr. Loconte also serves as a commentator on religion and culture for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. His articles have appeared in the nation's leading magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, National Review, Reader's Digest, The American Enterprise, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Times.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Loconte earned his bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana and has a master's degree in Christian History and Theology from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He lives in Washington, DC.