Cathy Young is a writer who contributes to Reason, Newsday, and Arc Digital. Born in the Soviet Union, she immigrated to the United States as a teen in the 1980s. Young is the author of Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood and Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality.

In December she wrote The Guillotine Mystique: The French Revolution has long inspired progressive radicals ready for change at any cost for Reason. She has even started the French Revolution Nerdblog.