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Tim Miller is The Bulwark’s writer-at-large and host of “The Next Level” podcast. He is the author of The New York Times best-selling book Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell (2022), which chronicled how and why Republican elites yielded to Donald Trump’s takeover of the party. He is a MSNBC political analyst and the host of Not My Party on Snapchat. He is a frequent guest on Crooked Media’s Pod Save America and has written about politics and culture for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Ringer, and Playboy. His satirical profile of Gettr was highlighted on Bloomberg’s “Jealousy List” in 2021. 

Prior to his move to the media, Miller was a leading strategist for Republican politicians and a PR consultant for corporations and advocacy groups. He was the Political Director for Republican Voters Against Trump. Prior to that he was the Communications Director for Jeb Bush 2016, Spokesman for the Republican National Committee, and Founder of America Rising, a GOP Super PAC focused on opposition research and candidate tracking. Miller worked for or advised numerous other Republican campaigns including Jon Huntsman’s 2012 presidential campaign, John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, Scott Walker and Nikki Haley’s successful gubernatorial re-elections, and several congressional campaigns in Iowa. 

Miller has been recognized as one of the leading “Never Trump Republicans.” Following Jeb Bush’s defeat in the 2016 campaign he became spokesman for “Our Principles PAC,” a group dedicated to stopping Trump’s nomination.  At the time, the Washington Post included him in a list of “The Ten Republicans who hate Donald Trump the most.” After the 2020 campaign he officially left the party in a widely read article for The Bulwark titled “Goodbye to All That.” 

Miller grew up in Denver, Colorado and graduated from George Washington University with a degree in political science and journalism. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana with his husband and daughter.

About the Jack Kemp Distinguished Lecture Series

​Jack Kemp '57, NFL quarterback, congressman, Housing and Urban Development secretary, and 1996 GOP vice presidential candidate, built a game plan for life around his passions: family, football, and the future of his country. By the time he was 6, he had decided that he wanted to be a professional quarterback. Occidental not only helped Kemp realize that dream, it opened his eyes to a bigger world of ideas.His lifelong love of learning, his ability to reach out across the aisle, and his eloquence as a speaker and writer all reflect the liberal arts education he received at Oxy.

The Jack Kemp '57 Distinguished Lecture Series, made possible by the Jack Kemp '57 Scholars Endowment, strives to engage Occidental students and faculty in dialogue on important issues of public policy such as the political economy, economic growth in the context of a market system, communitarian values, and bipartisan relations.