Michael Hirsh (journalist)

Michael Hirsh (born in 1957) is an American journalist.
"Hirsh, Michael 1957– ."
''Contemporary Authors''. Encyclopedia.com (September 8, 2021). He is a columnist for ''Foreign Policy''.

Early life

He graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in 1979 with a B.A. in philosophy. He took his graduate degree in international and public affairs at Columbia University.

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 Richard B. Spencer 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 salutes.

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, 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'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''Foreign Affairs'', ''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 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. 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.

Personal life

Hirsh lives in Northwest, Washington, D.C.

Awards

* Deadline Club Award (1997).
:: For investigative reporting exposing IRS's abusive practices.
* Overseas Press Club Award (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.
:: For ''Newsweeks coverage of the war on terror.

Publications

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 and Stephen Mihm together, David Wessel, Daniel Gross and Joseph E. Stiglitz), 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".

References

External links

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Michael Hirsh
at Government Executive

"Hirsh, Michael 1957– ."
at Encyclopedia.com

Videos of discussions/debates involving Hirsh
at Bloggingheads.tv

Michael Hirsh Manuscript Collection
a
University of South Florida

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Living people
Newsweek people
Place of birth missing (living people)
1957 births
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni