Michael Goldfarb (born June 6, 1980) is an American conservative political writer.
He was contributing editor for The Weekly Standard and was a research associate at the Project for the New American Century.
During the 2008 presidential race he served as John McCain's deputy communications director.
He is a founder of the online conservative magazine The Washington Free Beacon.
Goldfarb attracted some online attention for two posts ridiculing liberal bloggers as basement-dwelling Dungeons and Dragons players.He has a B.A.
in history from Princeton University.
In an article titled "A Conservative Provocateur, Using a Blowtorch as His Pen," The New York Times called Goldfarb "an all-around anti-liberal provocateur" and said he "has blazed a trail in the new era of campaign finance, in which loosened restrictions have flooded the political world with cash for a whole new array of organizations that operate outside the traditional bounds of the parties."