Dan McLaughlin is the author of Born in Wire and Steam: The New Modern World, 1851–1857, forthcoming from Creed & Culture. He is a senior writer at National Review, a fellow at National Review Institute, and a periodic contributor to the New York Post, the Daily Mail, and the Telegraph. He was formerly an attorney practicing securities and commercial litigation in New York City, a contributing editor of RedState, columnist at the Federalist and the New Ledger, a baseball blogger at BaseballCrank.com, BostonSportsGuy.com, and the Providence Journal, and a contributor to the Command Post. His writing on politics, baseball, law, and history has appeared in numerous other newspapers, magazines, websites, and legal journals. He graduated from the history honors program at the College of the Holy Cross and from Harvard