Andrew Sullivan
Educated at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Andrew Sullivan has worked across an unusually wide range of roles within journalism and letters — writer, essayist, columnist, journalist, editor, editor-in-chief, blogger, and pundit.
Born on August 10, 1963, in Godstone, Sullivan attended Reigate Grammar School before going on to study at Magdalen College and subsequently at Harvard. A citizen of both the United Kingdom and the United States, he pursued a career that moved across formats and institutional positions. His occupational range reflects a professional life shaped by the distinct demands of editorial authority, column writing, longer-form essays, and the more immediate registers of blogging and punditry. All of this work has been conducted in the English language.
The breadth of his listed roles — spanning the hierarchical responsibilities of an editor-in-chief alongside the more personal voice of an essayist and blogger — gives his career a particular shape. Sullivan's training at Magdalen College, Reigate Grammar School, and ultimately at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard provided the educational foundation across which these varied occupational identities developed. His dual citizenship, connecting him to both Britain and the United States, runs as a biographical constant through a working life spent as a writer and journalist.
Quotes by Andrew Sullivan
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When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.'
It is one of history’s great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.
The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It’s coming for the anti-war movement.
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.
The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore.
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn’t a profession, it’s a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you’re all set.
Personally, I’d rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I’d love to hang with Bush.
Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That’s a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man’s veins.
