Journalist, commentary writer
Washington D.C., DC, USA
T. Becket Adams is a columnist at the Hill, National Review, and the Washington Examiner. His byline also appears in the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, RealClearPolitics, and Spectator. In his nearly two decades in the news industry, Adams has worked as a business reporter, business editor, media reporter, campaign reporter, senior commentary writer, and editorial writer. He has reported on presidential campaigns, Congress, the economy, and media scandals. He has authored hundreds of fact-checks. He has interviewed union laborers and cabinet secretaries. Adams also has extensive television experience, including serving as a lead panelist for CNN. Adams was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. He earned a B.A. in history from Christendom College in 2004 and a master’s degree in business analytics from The Catholic University of America in 2011.






There seems to be a consensus that writing in modern entertainment is uniquely weak – whether it’s trite, lazy, or even riddled with anachronisms. Has something happened? Have the competent screenwriters simply disappeared? Or has it as a profession suffered from the general, cultural-wide competency crisis? It seems telling that for FIFTEEN YEARS running, a director has won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (with some caveats as to what constitutes a director vs. a “screenwriter,” of course). Has the screenwriter all but disappeared as a separate and necessary element of the film- and television-making process? It is the strike? Is it streaming? Is it AI? Talk to me like I’m in 12th grade. How is it possible to have gone from the precision of Paddy Chayefsky to a major studio Lucille Ball biopic in 2021 that uses phrases such as “circle back” and “brand ambassador”? How did we go from “I could’ve been a contender” caliber of Oscar-winning writing to “Chicago ain't nothing but Mississippi with tall buildings”? The latter is an objectively silly line – sillier still because it is presented and received as profound. Many such thoughts, but I’d really like to hear from someone who is in it, rather than someone who is simply observing. Thanks!
Deadline: Apr 15th, 2026 12:00 AM ET
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An exclusive and original investigation of one of the many failures of the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign. (Published originally in the Washington Examiner.)
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A deeply researched argument against Canada's embrace of state-assisted suicide. (Published originally in the Washington Examiner.)
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A first-person attempt to explain and understand the World Economic Forum’s annual summit in Davos.
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