About: David Skinner (journalist)

David Paul Skinner (born February 25, 1973) is the editor of Humanities magazine, which is published by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Before assuming the editorship of Humanities in 2007, Skinner was an assistant managing editor at The Weekly Standard, for which he frequently wrote. Prior to joining the Standard in November 1998, Skinner was managing editor of The Public Interest. Skinner's first book, The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published (ISBN 978-0-06-202746-7), was published in 2012.