John judis biography
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John Judis
Template:TOCnestleftJohn B. Judis is a senior editor of New Republic, where he has worked since 1984. He is also visiting scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace[1].
Activism in his words
From an essay in the New Republic dated August 24, 2017 titled "The Socialism America Needs Now":[2].
- "In the early 1970s, I was a founding member of the New American Movement, a socialist group that later merged with another (the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee) to create what is still the Democratic Socialists of America. Earlier, I had been a member of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), but after the organization went berserk in the summer of 1969 and opted for “bringing the war home” through terrorist activity, I had dropped out. In 1971, a bunch of us had come together to found NAM as a way of preserving what was sane and democratic in the earlier SDS."
- ""Five years later, I was finished with NAM, too, and gave u
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John Judis
American journalist
John B. Judis is an author and American reporter, an editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo, a former senior writer at the National Journal and a former senior editor at The New Republic.[1]
Education
[edit]Judis was born in Chicago to a family of Jewish heritage. He attended Amherst College and received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley.
Career
[edit]Judis has been a lifelong democratic socialist. In 1986, while debating the Objectivist philosopher Harry Binswanger, a disciple of Ayn Rand, in a televised debate "Socialism vs. Capitalism,"[2] Judis laid out his version of socialism as being the inevitable socioeconomic arrangement of a post-capitalist society, where highly educated and industrialized societies would invariably transform into social democracies with mixed-market economies, personal property rights and independent small and medium enterprises, with
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John B. Judis is an author and American journalist, an editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo, a former senior writer at the National Journal and a former senior editor at the New Republic. He has also been a contributing editor of GQ, a columnist for the American Prospect, and a founding editor, and for many years the Washington correspondent, of In These Times. Judis is the author of five books: William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives; Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American Century; The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust; The Emerging Democratic Majority (with Ruy Teixeira); and The Folly of Empire.
Judis was born in Chicago and attended Amherst College and the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received a BA and an MA, in philosophy.
Photo courtesy Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- ""Five years later, I was finished with NAM, too, and gave u