{{short description|American journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = Steve Chapman | image = Steve Chapman.jpg | caption = Chapman in 2022 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|2|25|mf=y}} | birth_place = Brady, Texas | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = Harvard College (BA) | occupation = Columnist
}} '''Stephen James “Steve” Chapman''' (born February 25, 1954) is an American opinion journalist and contributing columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
==Early life and education== Chapman was born in Brady, Texas and grew up in Midland and Austin, graduating from A.N. McCallum High School. He attended Harvard College, where he was on the staff of The Harvard Crimson,<ref name="Crimson">{{cite news|title=Stephen J. Chapman|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/writer/2553/Stephen_J._Chapman/|accessdate=22 September 2020|newspaper=The Harvard Crimson}}</ref> and graduated cum laude in 1976.
==Career== Chapman was a staff writer and associate editor of The New Republic magazine from 1978 to 1981.<ref name="TNR">{{cite news|title=Stephen Chapman|url=https://newrepublic.com/authors/stephen-chapman|accessdate=22 September 2020|newspaper=The New Republic}}</ref> He joined the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune in 1981 and began writing a twice-a-week opinion column on national and international affairs in 1982. His column was syndicated by Creators Syndicate.<ref name="Creators">{{cite news|title=Steve Chapman|url=https://www.creators.com/features/steve-chapman|accessdate=22 September 2020|newspaper=Creators Syndicate}}</ref> He took a buyout from the Tribune in 2021, and currently writes a monthly column for them.
Media critic Jack Shafer has described him as “a polymath, a creative policy wonk, a tap-dancing writer, a true son of liberty, (and) a failed Christian,” noting his “pro-gun, antigovernment, pro-peace, anti-drug-war, pro-market views.”<ref name="Slate">{{cite news|last1=Shafer|first1=Jack|title=After Safire: More names for the shortlist to replace William Safire|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/12/safire-substitutes.html|accessdate=22 September 2020|newspaper=Slate}}</ref>
Chapman has described his political views as “moderate libertarian.”<ref>{{cite news|last1=Chapman|first1=Steve|title=Column: Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg both want to run your life|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/steve-chapman/ct-column-sanders-bloomberg-socialism-chapman-20200226-tugerklwkbgddhk4mufdhlrox4-story.html|accessdate=22 September 2020|newspaper=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>
==Personal life== Chapman has two sons and a daughter from his first marriage. He married Cyn Sansing Mycoskie in 2007 and has three stepsons.<ref>{{cite news|title=About Steve Chapman|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-chapman-blog-bio-htmlstory.html |accessdate=22 September 2020|newspaper=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>
==Bibliography== * {{cite book |title=Recalculating: Steve Chapman on a New Century: Collected Columns from the Chicago Tribune |last=Chapman |first=Steve |authorlink= |year=2016 |orig-year= |publisher=Agate Digital |location= |edition= |url=https://www.amazon.com/Recalculating-Chapman-Century-Collected-Columns-ebook/dp/B01JF6UPO0 |accessdate= |oclc=}}
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