Mike Gonzalez is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Allison Center for Foreign Policy in Washington, DC, where he writes on critical race theory, national identity, diversity, multiculturalism, assimilation, and nationalism, as well as foreign policy in general. He spent close to twenty years as a journalist, fifteen of them writing from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He left journalism to join the Bush administration, serving as a speechwriter for Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, before moving on to the State Department's European Bureau, where he wrote speeches and op-eds.
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