Jenna Lifhits is a reporter at The Weekly Standard and was a media analyst at The Washington Free Beacon. She graduated from Middlebury College with a double major in political science and Russian. On campus, she served as meals chair for Middlebury Hillel and wrote for the college newspaper. Ms. Lifhits has participated in the Tikvah summer fellowship for college students as well as at the Hertog Political Studies Program, where she studied political philosophy as well as foreign and domestic policy. Ms. Lifhits interned at the American Enterprise Institute and tracked the crisis in Ukraine as part of the Critical Threats Project. Her senior thesis was on liberal education and the thought of Aristotle, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Michael Oakeshott.