John Leo is a columnist and editor of MindingTheCampus.com and a former contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report.

Mr. Leo is a former associate editor fo Commonwealth magazine, a former book editor of the sociology magazine Society, and a former deputy commissioner of New York City's Environmental Protection Administration.

He launched the "Press Clips" column in The Village Voice.

His popular "Ralph & Wanda" dialogues -- imaginary conversations between a liberal feminist and her conservative masculinist husband -- began in Time magazine and later were featured in McCall's. Many of them are included in his book of humor How the Russians Invented Baseball and Other Essays of Enlightenment (1989).

He lives with his wife and daughter in Manhattan