Rob Henderson is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal. He is the best-selling author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. He writes about human nature, psychology, social class, culture, political and social divisions, and more.

Henderson is a columnist at The Free Press and the Boston Globe and has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, among other outlets. His Substack newsletter is sent each week to more than 60,000 subscribers.

After enlisting in the U.S. Air Force at 17 years old, Henderson attended Yale University on the GI Bill and earned a B.S. in Psychology. He also holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Cambridge, where he studied as a Gates Cambridge Scholar.