Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and has appeared on the Journal Editorial Report, other Fox News programs and C-SPAN.

[5] Riley joined The Wall Street Journal in 1994 as a copyreader on the national news desk in New York City.

[8] In National Review Thomas Sowell praised the book, writing: "Pick up a copy and open pages at random to see how the author annihilates nonsense.

"[9] According to Salon, "[t]he American left should start paying attention to The Wall Street Journal's Jason Riley.

[13][14] In 2024, Riley was subject to notoriety online after arguing in a July 9th opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal that Kamala Harris would be the best Democratic candidate to run for President, only to reverse the position two weeks later and hours after Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee arguing in another opinion piece for the Journal that Kamala Harris isn’t the change Democrats need.