David Freddoso is a political reporter for National Review based in Washington, D.C. He has covered Capitol Hill for six years, working under Robert Novak at the Evans and Novak Political Report and earlier at the conservative weekly newspaper Human Events. He studied Classical Greek at the University of Notre Dame and earned a master's in journalism at Columbia's Pulitzer School before covering southwest Brooklyn at the weekly Home Reporter and Sunset News. He hails from South Bend, Ind.