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Mark Levin

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Mark Levin

Lawyer-turned-broadcaster with one of talk radio’s largest audiences.

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Mark Reed Levin (born September 21, 1957) is an American conservative political commentator, lawyer, radio host, television personality, author, and editor-in-chief of Conservative Review since 2015. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio program The Mark Levin Show, which airs on nearly 400 stations and reaches over 14 million listeners weekly, emphasizing constitutional principles and critiques of government overreach. Levin also hosts Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News, a program exploring American founding values, culture, and current political events through interviews and analysis. A former chief of staff to U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III during the Reagan administration, Levin advised cabinet members on policy matters and later founded the Landmark Legal Foundation, serving as its president until 2017 and currently as chairman emeritus, focusing on litigation to advance limited government and individual rights. Levin is a New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, including Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (2009) and The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic (2013), which articulate defenses of originalist constitutionalism against modern statist tendencies.

Mark Reed Levin was born on September 21, 1957, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, into a Jewish family of three sons. His parents were Jack E. Levin, a small businessman who later became an author and artist, and Norma Levin, to whom Jack was married for over sixty years until his death in 2018. The family resided in upper-middle-class circumstances in the Philadelphia suburbs of Erdenheim and Elkins Park.

Levin's siblings included brothers Doug and Rob. Jack Levin, born in 1925, operated a small business and pursued creative endeavors such as writing and illustration in his later years, though specific details of his early professional life remain limited in public records. The family's Jewish heritage and suburban Philadelphia environment shaped Levin's formative years, with no documented accounts of unusual hardships or relocations during childhood.

Mark Levin was born on September 21, 1957, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Jewish family as one of three sons. His father, Jack E. Levin (1925–2018), was an author, artist, and small businessman who wrote children's books such as George Washington: The First President and lived in Florida with his wife for over sixty years. Levin's mother, Norma R. Levin (1931–2019), worked as an educator and small businesswoman; the family co-authored the children's book My Dog Spot, published by Simon & Schuster. He has a brother named Douglas Levin.

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