Carlos Lozada (journalist)

Carlos Eduardo Lozada^[1] (born 1971) is a Peruvian-American journalist and author. He joined The New York Times^[2] as an opinion columnist in 2022 after a 17-year career as senior editor and book critic at The Washington Post. He won^[3] the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2019 and was a finalist for the prize in 2018.^[4] The Pulitzer Board cited his "trenchant and searching reviews and essays that joined warm emotion and careful analysis in examining a broad range of books addressing government and the American experience." He has also won the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing^[5] and the Kukula Award for excellence in nonfiction book reviewing.^[6] Lozada was an adjunct professor of political science and journalism with the University of Notre Dame's Washington program, teaching from 2009 to 2021. He is the author of What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era,^[7] published in 2020, and The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians, published in 2024, both with Simon & Schuster.