Jeremy Carl

Jeremy Carl is an American right-wing political commentator and government official who was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior during the first Trump Administration. Carl is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. He was previously a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Early life and education Carl received a BA from Yale University, where he served as President of the Yale Political Union, and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was a research fellow at Stanford University's Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies. From 2004 to 2005 Carl lived in India where he was a visiting fellow in resource and development economics at The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi.

Carl comes from a Jewish family but has converted to Christianity. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church in America.

Career Carl is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute.

Carl stirred controversy in 2020 and again in 2025 over incendiary social media posts. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut called Carl a white nationalist shortly after questioning Carl during a congressional hearing on his nomination to be the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. Carl pushed back against the assertion that he is a white nationalist and instead claimed that he is an American civic nationalist.

Carl has advocated for the Trump administration to ignore court rulings it considers illegal. In September 2025, CNN reported that Carl had deleted thousands of inflammatory social media posts and requested their removal from the Wayback Machine. The posts included praise for the January 6 rioters, a call for the death penalty for an opponent, promotion of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory and denigration of George Floyd. Carl withdrew his nomination on March 10, 2026, citing a lack of support among Republican Senators on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Books Conversations about Energy: How the Experts See America's Energy Choices (Hoover Institution Press, 2010) (with James Goodby) Distributed Power in the United States: Prospects and Policies (Hoover Institution Press, 2013) (editor) Keeping the Lights on at America’s Nuclear Power Plants (Hoover Institution Press, 2017) (with David Fedor) The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart (Regnery, 2024)