Author and political commentator Andrew Sullivan, also regarded as one of the pioneers of weblog journalism, will visit the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Thursday, Jan. 29 to discuss, "American Politics at Home and Abroad." The public portion of the program begins at 6:45 p.m., with free seating on a first-come basis.
A former editor-in-chief of The New Republic, Sullivan's writing has covered such topics as international affairs, electoral politics, and issues regarding faith and gay marriage. His blog, The Daily Dish, is hosted at Atlantic.com and averages more than 280,000 page views a day. In addition to his blogging, he is a columnist for the Sunday Times of London.
Sullivan served as editor in chief of The New Republic from 1991-1996. His 1993 essay, The Politics of Homosexuality, was named by The Nation magazine as the most influential article of the 1990s in gay rights. In the summer of 2000, Sullivan became one of the first mainstream journalists to experiment with blogging when he launched the Daily Dish in 2000 at original host site andrewsullivan.com. In 2007, he moved the blog to The Atlantic Online.
He has written for Time magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the Daily Telegraph, and Esquire. Sullivan also is a frequent guest on Real Time with Bill Maher.
His books include Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality (1995), Same Sex Marriage: Pro and Con, A Reader (1997), Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex and Survival (1999), and The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back (2007).
A native of England, he came to the United States on a Harkness Fellowship. He received his B.A. from Magdalene College at Oxford, and holds an M.A. in public administration and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.