Matthew B. Crawford is an American writer and research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.
Crawford majored in physics as an undergraduate, then turned to political philosophy.
[1] In September 2001, Crawford accepted a position as executive director of the George C. Marshall Institute,[2] but left the institute after five months,[3] saying that "the trappings of scholarship were used to put a scientific cover on positions arrived at otherwise.
For example, part of my job consisted of making arguments about global warming that just happened to coincide with the positions taken by the oil companies that funded the think tank.
"[4] As of 2020[update] he is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia,[1] a contributing editor at The New Atlantis, and professes to be a motorcycle mechanic.