Domenech’s Bio
Ben Domenech is an American political commentator who is a political insider and editor-at-large of The Spectator World. In addition, he publishes The Transom and works as a radio host and television analyst. In 2013, Domenech was a co-founder of the RedState group blog and The Federalist. In 2021, he became an analyst on Fox News.
How old is Domenech?
He is 43 years old as of 1 January 2025. He was born on 1 January 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States.
Domenech’s Wife and Children
On November 21, 2017, Domenech wed Meghan McCain, the late US Senator John McCain’s daughter. In September 2020, she gave birth to Liberty, the couple’s first daughter and Tulsi Gabbard and her husband Abraham’s goddaughter. In January 2023, she gave birth to Clover, her second daughter.
What Ethnicity is Domenech?
Domenech’s ethnicity is Catalan. Domenech, his last name, is a typical Catalan one. He grew up in South Carolina after being born in Mississippi. Douglas Domenech, his father, is also Catalan and has worked for the US government in a number of capacities.
Where is Domenech now?
Domenech was a well-known person in the political arena and the youngest political appointee of the George W. Bush administration. Douglas Domenech, his father, served in the Bush administration in a number of mid-level roles. Later, Domenech contributed to the National Review Online as a contributing editor and wrote speeches for Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. In addition, he was an editor at Regnery Publishing and the primary speechwriter for Senator John Cornyn.
Domenech joined The Washington Post as a blogger in March 2006, bringing conservative viewpoints to the publication’s opinion pages. But when it was revealed that he had previously copied other people’s writings that had first appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The National Review, and a number of other magazines, he quit. According to The Post, editors would never have given him the job in the first place if they had known about his plagiarism when they hired him.
Domenech contributed a number of pieces to The Washington Times and Human Events during the 2008 race. For the Heritage Foundation, he also provided in-depth commentary on social and economic problems pertaining to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Together with Luke Sherman and Sean Davis, Domenech co-founded The Federalist in September 2013, with Mollie Hemingway and David Harsanyi serving as senior editors.
One of the most notable publications under Domenech has been The Federalist, which questions the Me Too movement and dives right into the culture battles. Although Domenech and the other founders have refused to reveal their financial sources, the site is held by a private firm and is exempt from disclosure laws. According to BuzzFeed News, the funding of the website has caused “considerable amount of speculation in the political media world.”