Jacob Weisberg



Profile:


Full name: Jacob Weisberg

Area of interest: US Politics and goverment policy

Journals: Slate, Financial Times

Email: Slate: contact us

Website: Slate

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Biography:
Education: Yale University; New College, Oxford (Rhodes Scholarship)

Career: The New Republic: Associate Editor, Managing Editor, Deputy Editor, Senior Editor, 1989/1994; New York Magazine: wrote the 'National Interest' column, 1994/1996; joined Slate in 1996: chief political correspondent 1996/2002, editor 2002/2008


 * see: Slate magazine 'who we are' - Jacob Weisberg

Current position/role: Chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate group


 * also writes/has written for: has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, a reporter for Newsweek in London and Washington and written freelance for: The New Yorker, Partisan Review, Esquire, GQ, The Washington Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Sunday Times, The Observer. Remains as a contributing editor at The New Republic

Other roles: Author

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Disclosure:

Viewpoints/Insight:
 * Interview by Tao Lin, 2005
 * My First Convention: Jacob Weisberg - Huffington Post, 30th August 2008 (YouTube VIDEO)

TV/Radio: Commentator on US National Public Radio
 * IMDb

Controversy/Criticism: Commented in Slate that the only reason Barack Obama would ever lose to John McCain is racism by white Americans against Obama - see If Obama Loses - Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him - 23rd August 2008

Other: Son of Lois Weisberg, the Chicago social activist celebrated in Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point



Books & Debate:

 * Bushisms OCLC, 1992
 * In Defense of Government OCLC34192069, 1996
 * The Road to Chadville (eBook), 2000
 * In an Uncertain World OCLC52127817 ,(co-author Robert E. Rubin) ,2003
 * The ultimate George W. Bushisms: Bush at war OCLC144547925, 2007

Latest work: The Bush Tragedy OCLC175284188, 2008 (reviewed by Peter Preston in The Observer)

Speaking/Appearances:

Current debate: 

Slate: The Big Idea
Column remit: "The thinking behind the news"

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Role: Editor

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Email: contact

Website: The Big Idea

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Day published: Saturday

Regularity: Fortnightly (regular weekly column until April 2007)

Column format: Web based

Average length: 900 words



Articles:

 * Political Corruption Smackdown - Which state is the most crooked—Illinois or Louisiana? - 13th December 2008
 * Loyalty - It's the most overrated virtue in politics - 29th Novemer 2008
 * The Genius Cabinet - Why the president-elect should surround himself with brilliant—albeit prickly, semi-autistic, and egomaniacal—thinkers - 15th November 2008
 * Spread It Around - Barack Obama favors redistributing wealth. So does John McCain - 31st October 2008
 * The End of Libertarianism - The financial collapse proves that its ideology makes no sense - 18th October 2008
 * Name That Economy - We don't just need to recapitalize the banks. We need to reconceptualize capitalism - 4th October 2008
 * Obama's message deficit - Why he needs an ecomonic slogan - 20th September 2008
 * Whatever happened to family values? - How the GOP gave in to anti-abortion absolutism - 6th September 2008
 * If Obama Loses - Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him - 23rd August 2008
 * How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? - I believed the groupthink and contributed to it - (Politics: Who's winning, who's losing, and why) - 21st March 2008
 * McCain and Obama - How the front-runners are alike - 7th January 2008

Archive: 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2003



Slate: Bushisms of the Day
Column remit: "The president's accidental wit and wisdom."

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Email: [mailto:bushisms@slate.com bushisms@slate.com]

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Articles:

 * The Complete Bushisms - updated fequently

Archive: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2000



Financial Times:
Column name: Column ended in April 2007

Column remit: US Politics and policy

Section: Comment

Role: Commentator

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Day published: Thursday

Regularity: Weekly

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Average length: 900 words



Articles:

 * Jacob Weisberg (archive)



Links:

 * Wikipedia bio