Matthew Petti is an assistant editor at Reason and a proud New Jersey native. He has previously reported for the BBC (in Persian and English), Drop Site News, The Intercept, The Daily Beast, New Lines Magazine, Responsible Statecraft, Middle East Eye, and The National Interest, among other publications. Matthew covers U.S. national security policy and its interactions with American society and domestic politics.
He graduated from Columbia University in 2019 with a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies—he is eternally grateful to the Columbia Daily Spectator for training him as a journalist—and from the University of Oxford in 2026 with a master's degree in social anthropology. In 2022, he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in Jordan to research the ways in which Arab journalists interact with foreign media.
