Madeleine Kearns is an associate editor at The Free Press.

Previously, she was a staff writer at National Review, a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, and a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow with The Fund for American Studies (2022 – 2023).

Maddy has written for The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Standpoint Magazine, Law & Liberty, UnHerd, The Scotsman, The Catholic Herald, Verily, and Heterodox Academy. She was regular on National Review’s “The Editors” podcast and has appeared on the BBC, STV, ITV, Fox News, PragerU, the Ben Shapiro Show, and the Megyn Kelly Show.

Madeleine graduated from the University of St Andrews, where she was a vocal scholar, with a first-class bachelor’s degree in English, minoring in Music. She received her postgraduate diploma in Education from the University of Glasgow, and Master’s in Journalism, “Cultural Reporting & Criticism,” from New York University.

Madeleine writes and performs music. She lives with her husband in New York City.