# Paul Matzko **URL:** --- Paul Matzko is a historian and a former research fellow for media studies at the Cato Institute. His book, [_The Radio Right: How a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement_](https://www.cato.org/books/radio-right-how-band-broadcasters-took-federal-government-built-modern-conservative-movement), was published by Oxford University Press. It has been described as “impressively researched and lucidly written” (_[Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/politics-partisan-media-and-the-talk-radio-revolution-11606516300)),_ “provocative,” ([_New Republic_](https://newrepublic.com/article/157926/rights-reign-air-waves)), and “terrifically entertaining” ([_New York Journal of Books_](https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/radio-right)).