- Jeremy Slate
Jeremy Slate was a US film and television actor, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on February 17 1926. He died following surgery for cancer on November 19 2006 in Los Angeles. He acted in a number of television series, which included Aquanauts, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Bewitched, and My Name Is Earl. From 1979-1987, Slate portrayed 'Chuck Wilson' on the daytime drama One Life to Live. He also appeared in a number of films throughout his career. - Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth , England ) is a journalist, author and literary critic. Hitchens received degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College , Oxford , in 1970. From 1971-1981, he worked in Britain as book reviewer for The Times newspaper. He emigrated to the United States in 1981, and has written regularly, or been a contributing editor for Harper's , Vanity Fair and The Nation . - Jack Shafer
Jack Shafer writes the Press Box column for online magazine "Slate". Before joining "Slate", he was editor for two city weeklies, "Washington City Paper" and "SF Weekly". He is perhaps best known for his critical obituary of Walter Annenberg, titled "Citizen Annenberg - So long you rotten bastard". Much of Shafer's writing focuses on what he sees as a lack of precision and rigor in reporting by the mainstream media. - Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria (born January 20 1964, Mumbai, India) is a journalist, columnist, author, editor, commentator, and television host specializing in international relations and foreign affairs. He was named Editor of "Newsweek International" in October 2000. He writes a weekly foreign affairs column for "Newsweek", which appears fortnightly in the Washington Post. - Dahlia Lithwick
Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at "Slate". She writes "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" and has covered the Microsoft trial and other legal issues for "Slate". Before joining "Slate" as a freelancer in 1999, she worked for a family law firm in Reno, Nevada. Her work has appeared in "The New Republic", "ELLE", "The Ottawa Citizen", and "The Washington Post". - John Dickerson
John Frederick Dickerson is chief political correspondent for "Slate magazine." Before joining "Slate," he covered politics for 12 years for "Time." His last four years he was the magazine’s White House correspondent. "The Washington Post" once wrote about his talent for asking questions: “The master of the game is John Dickerson of "Time" magazine, … - David Edelstein
David Edelstein (born 1959) is the chief film critic for "New York Magazine", as well as the film critic for NPR's "Fresh Air" and "CBS Sunday Morning". Edelstein became a journalist after graduating from Harvard in 1981. He is often associated with friend, fellow film critic, and iconoclast Pauline Kael, to whom he was close. He has previously been a film critic for "Slate" (1996-2005), the "New York Post", the "Village Voice", … - Dear Prudence
"Dear Prudence" is an advice column appearing weekly in the online magazine "Slate" and syndicated to over 200 newspapers. The column was initiated on 20 December 1997. "Prudence" was a pseudonym, and the author's true identity was not revealed at the time. "Slate"'s archive currently indicates that the author of those first columns was Herbert Stein. Stein ceased writing the column after three months and the column went on hiatus. - Fred Kaplan
Fred Kaplan is a journalist and contributor to "Slate" magazine. His "War Stories" column covers international relations and US foreign policy, with a particular focus on the Bush Administration and major related geopolitical issues. - Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, currently serving as editor of "Slate" magazine and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and connector celebrated in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point". Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a prominent Chicago lawyer and, later, judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison. - Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross is an American author, and writes for "Slate's" "Moneybox" column. He has written several books, including "Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time", "Bull Run: Wall Street, the Democrats, and the New Politics of Personal Finance", and "Generations of Corning: 150 Years in the Life of a Global Corporation, 1851-2001". He attended Cornell University and studied American history at Harvard University. - James Fallows
James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has worked for the magazine for more than 25 years. He has written for the magazine on a wide range of topics, including national security policy, American politics, the development and impact of technology, economic trends and patterns, and U.S. relations with the Middle East, Asia, and other parts of the world. - Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Edmund Easterbrook is an American writer who is a senior editor of "The New Republic". His articles have appeared in "Slate", "The Atlantic Monthly", "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "The Los Angeles Times", "Wired", and Beliefnet. In addition, he is a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C. think tank. - A. O. Scott
Anthony O. Scott (born July 10, 1966) is a film critic for "The New York Times" newspaper. He began his tenure at the paper's Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement. Before joining "The Times", Scott was a book critic for "Newsday" as well as a contributor to the "New York Review of Books" and "Slate". Son of the well-known historian Joan Wallach Scott, he attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, … - A.O. Scott
A.O. "Tony" Scott (b. July 10, 1966) is a film critic for "The New York Times" newspaper. He began his tenure at the paper's Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement. Before joining "The Times", Scott was a book critic for "Newsday" as well as a contributor to the "New York Review of Books" and "Slate". Son of the well-known historian Joan Wallach Scott, he attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, … - Paul Boutin
Paul Boutin (born 1961 in Lewiston, Maine, United States) is a magazine writer and editor who writes about technology in a pop-culture context. He is currently Wired's managing editor for blogs. Boutin has also written regularly for "Slate" and "Valleywag". He is a contributing editor to "Wired" magazine, and most recently a book reviewer for the "Wall Street Journal". In the past his work has appeared in the "New York Times", … - Emily Yoffe
Emily Yoffe (born 1954) is a journalist, a regular contributor to Slate magazine and the NPR radio show Day to Day. She has also written for The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, and many other publications. Yoffe began her... - Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourke is a journalist who writes for "The New York Times" and "Slate". She is currently the poetry editor for "The Paris Review" with Charles Simic. - Will Wilkinson
Will Wilkinson (born 1973) is an American libertarian writer and thinker. Currently he is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute where he works on a variety of issues including Social Security reform and, most notably, the policy implications of happiness research. Wilkinson is also the managing editor of the Cato Institute's monthly web magazine, Cato Unbound. - Alex Ross
Alex Ross (b. 1968) has been the music critic of "The New Yorker" magazine since 1996. His work has also appeared in "The New Republic", "Slate", the "London Review of Books", "Lingua Franca", and "Feed". From 1992 to 1996 he was a music critic at the "New York Times". He has been featured in "Best American Essays", "Da Capo Best Music Writing", and "Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader". - Robert Wright
Robert Wright is an American journalist and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, including "Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny", "The Moral Animal", and "Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information". He is a visiting scholar at The University of Pennsylvania. - James Surowiecki
James Michael Surowiecki is an American journalist. He is staff writer at "The New Yorker", where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page". Surowiecki's writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including "The New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal", "Artforum", "Wired", and "Slate". - Paul Berman
Paul Berman is an American author and journalist who writes on politics and literature. His articles have been published in The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review and Slate, and he is the author of several books, including "A Tale of Two Utopias" and "Terror and Liberalism." Berman received his undergraduate education from Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1971. He has reported on Nicaragua's civil wars, Mexico's elections, … - Witold Rybczynski
Witold Rybczynski (born in 1943, in Edinburgh, Scotland), is a Canadian architect, professor and writer. Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England before moving at a young age to Canada. He received Bachelor of Architecture (1960) and Master of Architecture (1972) degrees from McGill University in Montreal. Rybczynski has written more than 200 articles and papers on the subject of housing, architecture, and technology, … - Edward Jay Epstein
Edward Jay Epstein, born in 1935, is an American investigative journalist but is best known today as a commentator on Hollywood economics. Epstein attended Cornell University during the 1960s, where he received his BA. Epstein was an early critic of the Warren Commission. His Master's thesis, also at Cornell, was the influential "Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth", amongst the first publications to critically examine the Commission. - Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer is the Editor of the New Republic and the author of How Soccer Explains The World . Foer's book explores the world of soccer and its fanatical followers. Foer is also covering this year's World Cup in a blog called Goal Post . Vaughn Ververs at the CBS Public Eye explains : GOOOAAAAL! There you have it, my complete depth of knowledge about World Cup Soccer, or any soccer really. - Will Leitch
Will Leitch (born October 10, 1975 in Mattoon, Illinois) is a writer based in New York City and the founding editor of the Gawker Media sports blog Deadspin. Leitch is a contributor to "The New York Times", "New York" and "Slate", and has published two books, "Catch", a novel, and "Life as a Loser", a memoir. In January 2003, Leitch became a founding editor of "The Black Table", with Eric Gillin, A.J. Daulerio and Aileen Gallagher. - Lee Siegel
Lee Siegel (born December 5 1957) is a New York writer and cultural critic who has written for "Harper's", "The New Republic", "The Nation", "The Atlantic Monthly", "The New Yorker", "The New York Times", and many other publications. Siegel is a senior editor at "The New Republic" and lives in New York City with his wife and son. Siegel was born in The Bronx, New York, and received his BA, MA and M.Phil. - Richard Miniter
Richard Miniter (born 1967) is the author of two New York Times best selling books, "Losing bin Laden" and "Shadow War" and is an internationally recognized expert on terrorism. He is also a fellow at the Hudson Institute, Washington Editor of PajamasMedia.com and a former editorial page writer for "The Wall Street Journal Europe". He has been published in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", … - Daniel Radosh
Daniel Radosh (born 23 March 1969) is an American journalist and blogger. He is a contributing editor at "The Week" and writes regularly for "The New Yorker". His writing has also appeared "Entertainment Weekly", "Esquire", "GQ", "Mademoiselle", "McSweeney's Quarterly Concern", "Might", "New York Magazine", "The New York Times", "Playboy", "Radar", "Salon", "Slate", … - Mark Alan Stamaty
Mark Alan Stamaty is an American cartoonist and children's book writer and illustrator. During the 1980s and 1990s, Stamaty's work appeared regularly in the "Village Voice". He is the creator of the long-running comic strip "Washingtoon", as well as the earlier comic strip "MacDoodle Street", and the online strip "Doodlenium" for "Slate" magazine. He is also a spot illustrator for "Slate". - Whitney Matheson
Whitney Matheson is a writer and the author of Pop Candy (popcandy.usatoday.com), a popular entertainment blog. Matheson joined USA TODAY in 1999 and created Pop Candy as a weekly pop-culture column that same year. In 2006 Pop Candy won the Weblog Award for "Best Pop-Culture Blog." It has been cited in "Wired," "Slate", "The Rough Guide to Blogging" and on virtually every entertainment blog, including Stereogum, … - Hua Hsu
Hua Hsu (b. 1977) is an American music critic based in New York City. He is a frequent contributor to Slate, Blender and the Boston Globe Ideas section, as well as a former contributing editor to URB magazine and a columnist at The Wire. He maintains a blog, to here knows when - Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker magazine and the online magazine "Slate." He has also written for "New England Journal of Medicine". - Gene Lyons
Gene Lyons is a political columnist and co-author with Joe Conason of "The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton", a documentary book published in 2000, with a supporting film. The book outlines a purported right wing campaign waged against President Clinton leading eventually to the president's impeachment and exoneration. - Judith Shulevitz
Judith Anne Shulevitz is a writer on religion and literature whose articles have appeared in the New York Times and in "Slate" magazine. She has been heavily involved in the controversy over the work of the psychologist Kevin B. MacDonald. She is the second wife of Nicholas Lemann, the dean of the Columbia Journalism School. They married 1999 and have a son and a daughter. She also has two stepsons. - Randy Cohen
Randy Cohen is a U.S. writer and humorist best known as the author of "The Ethicist" column in "The New York Times Magazine". Cohen's column is syndicated throughout the U.S. and Canada; he also answers listeners' questions on ethics on the National Public Radio radio news program, "All Things Considered". Cohen's book, "The Good, The Bad & the Difference: How To Tell Right From Wrong in Everyday Situations" is based on his magazine column. - Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy (born October 17, 1974) is a contributing editor at "New York magazine" and author of the book "Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture". Her work has appeared in "The Washington Post", "Vogue", "Slate", "Men's Journal" and "Blender". Levy was raised in Larchmont, New York, and attended Wesleyan University in the 1990s. Her experiences at Wesleyan, which she says had "co-ed showers, … - Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn is an American novelist and critic who lives in Montana. A 1983 graduate of Princeton University, he has published a collection of short stories and several novels, including Thumbsucker, which was made into a 2005 film featuring Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn; Up in the Air; and Mission to America. In 2005, he took over pioneer blogger Andrew Sullivan's shoes for a few weeks while Sullivan was on vacation. He has recently finished work on The Unbinding, … - Nate Silver
Nate Silver (Nathaniel Read Silver, b. 1978, East Lansing, Michigan; now residing in Chicago, Illinois) is Executive Vice-President of Baseball Prospectus. He is best known for inventing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players.
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