John Judis

John B. Judisis an author and American journalist, an editor-at-large atTalking Points Memo,a former senior writer at theNational Journaland a former senior editor atThe New Republic.

John Judis
Born	Chicago,Illinois,U.S.
Education	Amherst College University of California, Berkeley(BA,MA)
Occupation(s)	Journalist,author

Education

Judis was born inChicagoto a family ofJewishheritage. He attendedAmherst Collegeand received B.A. and M.A. degrees inPhilosophyfrom theUniversity of California at Berkeley.

Career

Judis has been a lifelong democratic socialist. In 1986, while debating theObjectivistphilosopherHarry Binswanger,a disciple ofAyn Rand,in a televised debate "Socialism vs. Capitalism,"Judis laid out his version of socialism as being the inevitable socioeconomic arrangement of a post-capitalist society, where highly educated and industrialized societies would invariably transform into social democracies with mixed-market economies, personal property rights and independent small and medium enterprises, with state intervention to regulate problems of capitalism and alleviate suffering, a view shared by many modern sociologists, including Wolfgang Streeck,as well as mid-20th centuryProgressives.This vision has defined all of Judis' work as an author, and is declared as prophetic by the author himself in hisThe Socialist Awakening,published in 2020.

In 1969 he was a founding editor ofSocialist Revolution(which was later renamedSocialist Reviewand thenRadical Societybefore ceasing publication in 2009). In the 1970s he was a founding editor of theEast Bay Voice.He moved to Chicago in December 1976 to become the foreign editor ofIn These Times,a democratic socialist newsweekly. Judis moved to Washington in 1982. He started writing forThe New Republicin 1984, became a contributing editor in 1989, and joined the regular staff in 1995. He quit in December 2014 along with other editors in protest of the owner Chris Hughes' firing of the editor and plan to turn the magazine into a profit-making vehicle.

He has also written forGQ,Foreign Affairs,Mother Jones,The New York Times Magazine,andThe Washington Post.

In 1988, he published a biography,William F. Buckley: Patron Saint of the Conservatives;in 1992,Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American Century;in 2000,The Paradox of American Democracy.In 2002, he publishedThe Emerging Democratic Majority(co-written with political scientistRuy Teixeira), a book arguing that Democrats would retake control of American politics by the end of the decade, thanks in part to growing support from minorities, women, and well-educated professionals. Its title was a deliberate echo ofKevin Phillips' 1969 classic,The Emerging Republican Majority.The book was named one of the year's best byThe Economist.Later in 2015, in an essayThe Emerging Republican Advantagehe revised this view as he noted that the long term Democratic Majority had given way to an "unstable equilibrium" between the parties.

In 2004, he published "The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush could learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson," an attempt to put the American invasion of Iraq in historical context. In 2014 he authored the bookGenesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflictin which he discussed the connection between theIsrael lobby in the United Statesand the origin of the modern state of Israel. In 2016, he publishedThe Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics.This book, which was widely reviewed, analyzed, among other things, the remarkable success ofBernie SandersandDonald Trump.In 2018, he publishedThe Nationalist Revival: Trade, Immigration, and the Revolt against Globalization,which attempted to explain the rise of nationalist parties and candidates, including Donald Trump.In September 2020, Judis publishedThe Socialist Awakening.In 2021,The Politics of Our Timewas published. In November 2023, he and Ruy Teixeira published "Where Have All the Democrats Gone?"

Bibliography

• William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives.New York:Simon & Schuster.1988.ISBN0-7432-1797-7.OL56928W.
• Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American Century.New York:Farrar, Straus and Giroux.1992.ISBN9780374165949.OL18016065W.
• The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of the Public Trust.Pantheon Books.2000.ISBN0-679-43254-X.
• withTeixeira, Ruy(2002).The Emerging Democratic Majority.New York:Scribner.ISBN9780743238557.
• The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.New York: Scribner. 2004.ISBN0-7432-6127-5.
• Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014.ISBN9781429949101.
• The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics.New York:Columbia Global Reports.2016.ISBN9780997126440.OL20037476W.
• The Nationalist Revival: Trade, Immigration, and the Revolt against Globalization.New York: Columbia Global Reports. 2018.ISBN9780999745403.
• The Socialist Awakening: What's Different Now about the Left.New York: Columbia Global Reports. 2020.ISBN9781734420708.
• The Politics of Our Time: Populism, Nationalism, Socialism.New York: Columbia Global Reports. 2021.ISBN9781735913605.

External links

• TNR biographyArchived2013-01-25 at theWayback Machine
• AppearancesonC-SPAN
• TNR article: For a New Nationalism,by Judis andMichael Lind
• Trotskyism to Anachronism: The Neoconservative RevolutionArchived2016-05-06 at theWayback Machine,by John B. Judis (Foreign Affairs, 1995 )
• Video (and audio) of conversationwith John Judis andDavid FrumonBloggingheads.tv
• John Judis interviewed about his book,Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict(audiohere)