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Peretz pledged to let him continue running the magazine for at least three years. But by 1975, Peretz was agitated by having his own articles rejected for publication, pointing out that he had been pouring more and more money into the magazine to cover its losses, and he fired Harrison.
Jul 31, 2023 · Peretz boldly decided to publish the article on the Rosenberg case that I wrote with Sol Stern in 1979 that the New York Tim es spiked, making TNR the first publication to question the orthodoxy that the couple were innocent of being spies for the Soviet Union. During the Reagan administration, when I became involved in the controversies over ...
Oct 4, 2023 · For Peretz, the story of middle class Jews breaking down barriers in academia, media, the arts, and elsewhere is the story of how one minority cracked open a citadel of privilege so that, in due...
Jan 27, 2011 · The official line is that Peretz suffered a forced-exile of sorts from his long-time liberal haunts in New York and Harvard, where he was a sociology professor for decades – largely due to his ...
Dec 13, 2023 · Marty Peretz makes a rich and compelling argument for the ideals that have been the focus of his life: liberalism, democracy, and Zionism. He considers what will come next now that those ideals are no longer assured. This event is in-person and on YouTube.
May 26, 2024 · Coupled with the magazine, Peretz used his second wife’s vast fortune to create an political network that extended to many nodes of elite power: Harvard, Wall Street and even the White House ...
May 14, 2024 · To be sure, Peretz is often in error: To pick just one example, he claims that “the first time that journalists were regularly on TV” was in the 1980s, on shows like The McLaughlin Group. Meet the Press , which first aired in 1947, would like a word.
