Michael Hirsh is an American journalist. He is a senior correspondent and the deputy news editor for ''
Foreign Policy''.
Early life
Michael Hirsh was born in 1957.
["Hirsh, Michael 1957– ."]
''Contemporary Authors''. Encyclopedia.com (September 8, 2021). He graduated
magna cum laude
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from
Tufts University in 1979 with a B.A. in
philosophy, and took his graduate degree in
international
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Music Albums
* ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011
* ''International'' (New Order album), 2002
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and
public affairs at
Columbia University.
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Career
He was the former national editor for '' Politico''. He resigned from ''Politico'' on November 22, 2016, after publishing the home addresses of white nationalist
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Richard B. Spencer
Richard Bertrand Spencer (born May 1978) is an American neo-Nazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and white supremacist. A former editor, he is a public speaker and activist on behalf of the alt-right movement. He advocates for the rec ...
on Facebook. Hirsh called Spencer a Nazi after Spencer declared "Hail Trump!" and "Hail our people!" at a conference in Washington, D.C., declarations in response to which audience members performed Nazi salute
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s.
Hirsh is the former foreign editor, chief diplomatic correspondent and national economic correspondent for '' Newsweek'', as well as a former member of JournoList. He is a lecturer and has appeared numerous times as a commentator on Fox News, CNN
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, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and is a frequent guest of '' The Young Turks'', a streaming internet political talk show. In addition to '' Newsweek'', he has written for '' The Washington Post'', ''Politico Magazine
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'', ''The New York Times Book Review
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'', ''The New York Review of Books
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'', ''Foreign Affairs
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'', '' Harper's'', and '' Washington Monthly''. Hirsh was co-winner of the Overseas Press Club award for best magazine reporting from abroad in 2001 for "prescience in identifying the al Qaeda
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threat half a year before the September 11 attacks" and for ''Newsweek'''s coverage of the war on terror, which also won a National Magazine Award
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. Hirsh also co-authored (with Rod Nordland) the November 3, 2003 cover story, "Bush's $87 Billion Mess," about the Iraq reconstruction plan, one of three issues that won ''Newsweek'' its second National Magazine Award for General Excellence in three years.
Writing
Hirsh's first book, ''At War with Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World,'' was described by Bill Keller in The New York Times as "well-informed, historically literate, nonideological common sense. That may sound like faint praise, but in an America that sometimes seems poised between reckless adventure and helpless inertia, centrist common sense is something to be treasured." In his second book, ''Capital Offense: How Washington's Wise Men Handed America's Future over to Wall Street'', Hirsh argues that in the 2008 financial crisis, "otherwise intelligent and capable men like Greenspan, Rubin and Summers and later Hank Paulson and Tim Geithner permitted themselves to believe, in the face of a rising tide of contrary evidence, that markets are for the most part efficient and work well on their own."[Kakutani, Michiko]
"Deeper Looks at the Crisis of ’08 and the Oval Office." Review of ''Capital Offense: How Washington's Wise Men Turned America's Future Over to Wall Street''
by Michael Hirsh. '' New York Times'' (December 13, 2010). Archived fro
the original.
/ref> Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called the book "provocative" and noted that while much of its content had previously been covered in books by other authors (namely Nouriel Roubini
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, Stephen Mihm, David Wessel, Daniel Gross and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, and a full professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the J ...
), Hirsh still "does a highly informed, if decidedly opinionated, job of situating these developments within a historical context, and the book makes for useful and succinct reading."
Personal life
Hirsh lives in Northwest, Washington, D.C.
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Awards
* Deadline Club Award (1997).
:: For investigative reporting
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exposing IRS's abusive practices.[
* ]Overseas Press Club Award
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(2001).
:: For best magazine reporting from abroad in '' Newsweeks coverage of terrorism.[
* Ed Cunningham Award (2002), with others.
:: For best magazine reporting from abroad in '' Newsweeks coverage of terrorism.][
* ]National Magazine Award
The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design. Or ...
.
:: For '' Newsweeks coverage of the war on terror.[
]
Publications
Books
* ''At War with Ourselves: Why America is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World''. Oxford University Press (2003). . .
* ''None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism''. New York: New American Library
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(2003). . .
* ''The Liberators: America's Witnesses to the Holocaust''. New York: Bantam Books
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(2010). .
* ''Capital Offense: How Washington's Wise Men Turned America's Future Over to Wall Street''. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons (2010). .
Articles
"Bush and the World."
''Foreign Affairs
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'', vol. 81, no. 5 (September/October 2002)
pp. 18–43.
.
* "Bush's $87 Billion Mess," with Rod Nordland. '' Newsweek'' (November 3, 2003).
"How America Lost Its Nerve Abroad,"
with ''National Journal
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''. '' The Atlantic'' (June 11, 2013).
"India and Pakistan: Outlining a Path towards Peace,"
with Ahmad Hassan Awan and Jayanta Krishna Sarmah. '' Policy Perspectives'', vol. 15, no. 1 (2018), pp. 21–42. . .
"How Trump Practices 'Escalation Dominance.'"
'' Foreign Policy'' (April 19, 2019).
"America, indicted."
''Business Standard
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'' (July 6, 2021).
"How the U.S. Got 9/11 Wrong."
'' Foreign Policy'' (September 7, 2021).
References
External links
*
Michael Hirsh
at Government Executive
"Hirsh, Michael 1957– ."
at Encyclopedia.com
Videos of discussions/debates involving Hirsh
at Bloggingheads.tv
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Michael Hirsh Manuscript Collection
a
University of South Florida
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Newsweek people
Place of birth missing (living people)