Steven Lagerfeld is the former editor of ''

The Wilson Quarterly ''The Wilson Quarterly'' is a magazine published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. The magazine was founded in 1976 by Peter Braestrup and James H. Billington. It is noted for its nonpartisan, non-ideolog ...

'', the flagship publication of the

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, which he led from 1999 until winter 2014. Lagerfeld was born in New York City and received a bachelor's degree from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

in 1977. Before joining the editorial staff of ''

'' in 1981, he was assistant managing editor of ''

The Public Interest ''The Public Interest'' (1965–2005) was a quarterly public policy journal founded by Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol, members of the loose New York intellectuals group, in 1965.Gillian Peele, "American Conservatism in Historical Perspective", in ' ...

''. He was named editor of the WQ in 1999, replacing Jay Tolson. Lagerfeld's articles have been published in the ''

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'', '' Harper's'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and elsewhere.

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