Mark Judge

Notable work and positions

Freelance journalist and cultural critic
Contributing writer — The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Daily Caller, Law & Liberty, The Epoch Times, The New York Sun
Author, five nonfiction books

Biography

Mark Gauvreau Judge is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist, author, and filmmaker whose work centers on cultural criticism, addiction and recovery, and American popular music. He began writing professionally in the late 1990s as a contributing writer to the alternative weekly New York Press, and his journalism and criticism have since appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Weekly Standard, First Things, the New Criterion, the Daily Caller, Law & Liberty, the Epoch Times, and the New York Sun, among other outlets. His writing draws heavily on the cultural criticism of Christopher Lasch and frequently addresses questions of masculinity, faith, and the state of American journalism and popular culture. Judge attended Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2018, he received national attention when Christine Blasey Ford, during the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, said Judge had been present in the room during an alleged assault decades earlier; Judge said he had no memory of the incident and stated he would cooperate with investigators. He later wrote about the episode in his 2022 book The Devil's Triangle.

Career highlights

• Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk Hazelden, 1997 · A memoir of Judge's struggles with alcoholism and recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous.
• If It Ain't Got That Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture Spence Publishing, 2000 · An account of Judge's political and cultural shift, examining the decline of adult culture in America; became a national bestseller.
• Damn Senators: My Grandfather and the Story of Washington's Only World Series Championship Encounter Books, 2003 · A family history centered on Judge's grandfather, Washington Senators second baseman Joe Judge, and the team's 1924 World Series title.
• God and Man at Georgetown Prep: How I Became a Catholic Despite 20 Years of Catholic Schooling Crossroad Publishing, 2005 · A memoir of Judge's Catholic education and faith.
• The Devil's Triangle: Mark Judge vs the New American Stasi Bombardier Books, 2022 · An account of Judge's experience during the 2018 Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.