Sasha Polakow-Suransky (born April 3, 1979) is an American journalist and author. He is the deputy editor of

Foreign Policy A State (polity), state's foreign policy or external policy (as opposed to internal or domestic policy) is its objectives and activities in relation to its interactions with other states, unions, and other political entities, whether bilaterall ...

, and a former staff editor of International Op-Ed page at the

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

and former senior editor of

Foreign Affairs ''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and ...

. In 2015 he was an

Open Society Open society (french: société ouverte) is a term coined by French philosopher Henri Bergson in 1932, and describes a dynamic system inclined to moral universalism.Thomas Mautner (2005), 2nd ed. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy'' Open so ...

Fellow, while writing a book about the political impact of immigration. His first book, ''The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa'', was published in 2010. His second book, ''Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy''.

Life

After graduating from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, where he wrote for

The College Hill Independent ''The College Hill Independent'' (commonly referred to as ''The Indy'') is a weekly college newspaper published by students of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, the two colleges in the College Hill neighborhood in Providen ...

, Polakow-Suransky was awarded a

Rhodes Scholarship The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

and attended

Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

, where he earned a doctorate in modern history. He is the younger brother of

Shael Polakow-Suransky Shael Polakow-Suransky (born January 10, 1972) is the president of the Bank Street College of Education.Hernandez, Javier (January 20, 2014)"Schools Deputy to Run Bank Street College" ''The New York Times''. Retrieved February 12, 2014. Previously ...

; both are the children of Valerie Polakow and Leonard Suransky,

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

who were anti-

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

activists in South Africa before emigrating to the United States in 1973 to avoid possible arrest.

Works

*''The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa'', Pantheon, 2010. , *''Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy'', Nation Books, 2017. ,

References

1979 births Living people Brown University alumni American Rhodes Scholars The New York Times editors American people of South African-Jewish descent 21st-century American journalists {{US-journalist-1970s-stub