Andrew Sullivan

Blogger, The Dish Political Commentator

Blogger, journalist, and author Andrew Sullivan is a popular source of provocative, astute political and social commentary. The Washington Post called him “a media pioneer,” and said, “Andrew Sullivan might deserve to be remembered as the most influential political writer of his generation.”

At and , Sullivan was one of the first journalists to experiment with blogging. Throughout the first 15 years of the new millennium, Sullivan chronicled every major political and cultural moment in real time on his , The Dish. During the blog’s life at Time, , and independently, he helped to legitimized and advance the medium by publishing 250 to 300 posts a week.

In 2015, Sullivan announced his retirement from blogging. In assessing his body of work, New York magazine said, "[T]he archive makes a case for Sullivan’s outsize influence on the politics of the new century."

Playboy ranked The Dish the Top Political Blog in America, and Harvard Magazine wrote, “Be warned: Sullivan sometimes posts dozens of times a day. If you’ve never read him, it might be better not to start. A curiosity can lead to a habit, and a habit to an addiction. And then, without quite knowing how it happened, you may find yourself beginning a sentence with, 'As Andrew said...'”

Sullivan was ’s youngest editor-in-chief, acknowledged for making the magazine more relevant to his generation. He was named Editor of the Year by Adweek and received multiple National Magazine Awards. After working for TIME and The New York Times Magazine, he served as a senior editor for The Atlantic.

One of its earliest activists, Sullivan set the gay rights movement’s agenda for the following two decades with the landmark works: 1995's : An Argument About Homosexuality and 1989's "Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage."

Sullivan argued for a based on practical restraint, individual freedom, constitutional norms, and skepticism in The Conservative Soul: , Freedom, and the Future of the Right.

An Oxford graduate who received his PhD from Harvard, Sullivan has written extensively on a wide range of topics, including the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, civil liberties, the legalization of marijuana, human rights, and the future of media. A practicing Catholic, he has challenged the Church's position on gay life. Sullivan is a regular panelist on Real Time with Bill Maher.

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Economics, Ethics and the Future of Media

The Case for Legal Marijuana: A Conservative Take

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Books and Other Works Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con, A Reader Published 2004 Same-Sex Marriage is a diverse collection of essays and articles that explores the issue of same-sex marriages in America, addressing religious arguments for and against, legal and constitutional precedents, the issue of adoption, and other key questions.

Virtually Normal Published 1996 Virtually Normal is a study of societal attitudes toward homosexuality. It identifies the reasons behind discrimination and explains why and how such discrimination should be countered with rational, logical arguments.

How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics January 15, 2012 The right calls him a socialist, the left says he sucks up to Wall Street, and independents think he's a wimp. Andrew Sullivan on how the president may just end up outsmarting them all. Click to read

The Atlantic Cover Story: Dear President Bush, October 2009 An open letter to the one man who can repair the moral damage caused by torture. Click here to read

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Biography

Andrew Sullivan was born in South , Great Britain in 1963. In 1981 he earned an open Scholarship to Oxford University and was elected the youngest ever president of the Oxford Debating Union. After graduation from Oxford with honors in Modern History and Modern Languages, Sullivan came to the U.S. on a Harkness Fellowship (the British equivalent of the ), to attend 's John F. Kennedy School of Government. There he earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Political Science in 1990.

While still a student at Harvard, Sullivan worked as a summer intern at The New Republic magazine. In the summer of 1987, he returned as a full-time associate editor, the youngest in the magazine’s history. Colleagues were struck by Sullivan’s excellent journalistic instincts and his distinctive writing style with its heavy use of imagery. In October of 1991, he was named Editor-in-Chief of the magazine.

Sullivan’s tenure at The New Republic was distinguished for his tendency to concentrate on sociological topics, such as race relations, popular culture, and homosexuality. He stirred controversy with his widely influential critique of the Clinton health-care plan, the first publication of Charles Murray's , pioneering coverage of gay rights, the Supreme Court and , and his acclaimed reporting and writing on the Bosnian War. In 1992 and 1995, he received National Magazine Awards for Reporting, General Excellence and Public interest. In 1996, he was named Editor of the Year by Adweek.

In January 2007, Sullivan left his post as columnist and blogger for TIME to become a senior editor of The Atlantic. Sullivan was one of the first journalists to experiment with blogging. His blog, The Daily Dish, can now be found on the homepage of The Daily Beast. It has been ranked by Playboy as #1 on its list of Top 10 Political in America. He also served as a columnist for of London and was a contributing writer for Newsweek. In 2015, Sullivan announced his retirement from his blog, The Dish, which he wrote for and edited since 2000.

Sullivan’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine, among others. His media appearances have included Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Nightline, C-SPAN, Charlie Rose, the CBS Evening News and , where he is a regular panelist. His numerous public radio appearances including Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, and The Diane Rehm Show.

A practicing Catholic, Sullivan has challenged the Church’s position on gay life in his writing and lectures. During a talk at Boston College, he called the Church position on homosexuality as a involuntary, sinless condition whose expression is always sinful “fundamentally incoherent.” He went on to say that by banning the act of love, the Church was insuring that homosexuals could not love and be loved and therefore could not find completion in their lives. He also expressed disappointment in the Church’s failure to confront the everyday realities of

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gay life.

Sullivan is author of the critically-acclaimed landmark book Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality (1995), in which he offers an in-depth discussion on the subject of gay rights. It has been translated into four languages and is considered the definitive book on one of the country's most contentious social issues. In 1997, Sullivan edited a companion volume: Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con, A Reader. He is also the author of Love Undetectable, a collection of essays that forms an impassioned plea for diverse audiences to acknowledge the humanity of AIDS and to view friendship as an integral element in our society. In his latest book, The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back, Sullivan makes an impassioned call to rescue conservatism from the Republican far right. He argues for the revival of a conservative tradition based on practical restraint, individual freedom, constitutional norms and skepticism.

A seasoned lecturer, he has spoken at Harvard, Yale, Boston College, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Emory, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington, Seattle, and the University of California, San Diego, to name a few.

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