Editing Andrew Sullivan (section)

==Career==
Sullivan first wrote for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' on American politics.<ref name=toomey /> In 1986, he went to work for ''[[The New Republic]]'' magazine initially on a summer internship; among the most significant articles he wrote were "Gay Life Gay Death", an essay on the AIDS crisis, and "Sleeping with the Enemy", in which he attacked the practice of "[[outing]]", both of which earned him recognition in the gay community.<ref name=toomey /> He was appointed the editor of ''The New Republic'' in October 1991, a position he held until 1996.<ref name="journalist profile"/> In that position, he expanded the magazine from its traditional roots in political coverage to cultural issues and the politics surrounding them. During this time, the magazine generated several high-profile controversies.<ref name=intelligent/>

While completing graduate work at Harvard in 1988, Sullivan published an attack in ''[[Spy (magazine)|Spy]]'' magazine on [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]], "All Rhodes Lead Nowhere in Particular", which dismissed them as "hustling apple-polisher[s]"; "high-profile losers"; "the very best of the second-rate"; and "misfits by the very virtue of their bland, eugenic perfection." "[T]he sad truth is that as a rule," Sullivan wrote, "Rhodies possess none of the charms of the aristocracy and all of the debilities: fecklessness, excessive concern that peasants be aware of their achievement, and a certain hemophilia of character."<ref name=RhodesSpy>Sullivan, Andrew. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y78i5nkBWxgC&dq=rhodes+to+nowhere+andrew+sullivan&pg=PA282 All Rhodes Lead Nowhere in Particular] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411161244/https://books.google.com/books?id=Y78i5nkBWxgC&dq=rhodes+to+nowhere+andrew+sullivan&pg=PA282 |date=11 April 2023 }}", ''[[Spy (magazine)|Spy]]'', October 1988, pp. 108–114. Quoted in Schaeper, Thomas J.; Schaeper, Kathleen. ''The Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite'', Berghahn Books, 2010, pp. 281–285. {{ISBN|978-1845457211}}</ref> Author Thomas Schaeper notes that "[i]ronically, Sullivan had first gone to the United States on a [[Harkness Fellowship]], one of many scholarships spawned in emulation of the Rhodes program."<ref name=RhodesSpy/>

In 1994, Sullivan published excerpts on [[race and intelligence]] from [[Richard Herrnstein]] and [[Charles Murray (political scientist)|Charles Murray's]] controversial ''[[The Bell Curve]]'', which argued that some of the measured difference in [[IQ]] scores among racially defined groups was a result of [[Heredity|genetic inheritance]]. Almost the entire editorial staff of the magazine threatened to resign if material that they considered racist was published.<ref name=intelligent>{{cite web|url=http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/andrew-sullivan-thinking-out-loud|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425202254/http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/andrew-sullivan-thinking-out-loud|archive-date=25 April 2009 |title=Andrew Sullivan: Thinking. Out. Loud. |newspaper=Intelligent Life |date=Spring 2009 |access-date=24 October 2013|first=Johann |last=Hari}}</ref> To appease them, Sullivan included lengthy rebuttals from 19 writers and contributors. He has continued to speak approvingly of the research and arguments presented in ''The Bell Curve'', writing, "The book ... still holds up as one of the most insightful and careful of the last decade. The fact of human inequality and the subtle and complex differences between various manifestations of being human—gay, straight, male, female, black, Asian—is a subject worth exploring, period."<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2128199|title=The Bell Curve revisited.|journal=Slate |date=17 October 2005|access-date=22 January 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100210010840/http://www.slate.com/id/2128199| archive-date= 10 February 2010 | url-status= live|last1=Metcalf |first1=Stephen }}</ref> According to Sullivan, this incident was a turning point in his relationship with the magazine's staff and management, which he conceded was already bad because he "was a lousy manager of people."<ref name=intelligent/> He left the magazine in 1996.

Sullivan began writing for ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'' in 1998, but editor [[Adam Moss]] fired him in 2002. [[Jack Shafer]] wrote in ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' magazine that he had asked Moss in an email to explain this decision, but that his emails went unanswered, adding that Sullivan was not fully forthcoming on the subject. Sullivan wrote on his blog that the decision had been made by ''Times'' executive editor [[Howell Raines]], who found Sullivan's presence "uncomfortable", but defended Raines's right to fire him. Sullivan suggested that Raines did so in response to Sullivan's criticism of the ''Times'' on his blog, and said he had expected that his criticisms would anger Raines.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2065829|title=Raines-ing in Andrew Sullivan|journal=Slate|date=15 May 2002|access-date=1 August 2010|last1=Shafer|first1=Jack|archive-date=19 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119213600/http://www.slate.com/id/2065829/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Sullivan has also worked as a columnist for ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'' of London.<ref>{{cite news|author=Andrew Sullivan |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/back-together-me-fatboy-slim-and-the-rest-of-the-upwardly-mobile-gang-kpx2ftwkfmw |title=Back together: me, Fatboy Slim and the rest of the Upwardly Mobile Gang |work=The Sunday Times |date=23 June 2013 |access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref>

[[Ross Douthat]] and [[Tyler Cowen]] have suggested that Sullivan is the most influential political writer of his generation, particularly because of his very early and strident support for [[same-sex marriage]], his early political blog, his support of the [[Iraq War]], and his support of [[Barack Obama]]'s presidential candidacy.<ref name=Douthat>{{cite news|last=Douthat|first=Ross|title=The Influence of Andrew Sullivan|url=http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/the-influence-of-andrew-sullivan/|access-date=23 October 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2 July 2013|archive-date=4 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104114707/http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/the-influence-of-andrew-sullivan/|url-status=live}}</ref>

After the cessation of his long-running blog, ''The Dish'', in 2015,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Andrew|title=The Years of Writing Dangerously|url=http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/02/06/the-years-of-writing-dangerously/|website=The Dish|date=February 6, 2015|access-date=July 20, 2020|archive-date=17 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317041553/http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/02/06/the-years-of-writing-dangerously/|url-status=live}}</ref> Sullivan wrote regularly for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' during the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 presidential election]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/author/andrew-sullivan/?start=150|title=Most recent Articles By:Andrew Sullivan|access-date=July 20, 2020|archive-date=20 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720215624/https://nymag.com/author/andrew-sullivan/?start=150|url-status=live}}</ref> and in 2017 began writing a weekly column, "Interesting Times", for the magazine.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Andrew|title=The Madness of King Donald|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/02/andrew-sullivan-the-madness-of-king-donald.html|website=New York|date=July 17, 2020|access-date=July 20, 2020|archive-date=20 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720200217/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/02/andrew-sullivan-the-madness-of-king-donald.html|url-status=live}}</ref>	

On July 19, 2020, after the unexplained absence of his column for June 5,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Andrew|title=Heads up: my column won't be appearing this week.|url=https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1268564124423933953|website=Twitter|date=June 4, 2020|access-date=July 20, 2020|archive-date=9 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609184708/https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1268564124423933953|url-status=live}}</ref> Sullivan announced that he would no longer write for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' and would be reviving ''The Dish'' as a newsletter, ''The Weekly Dish'', hosted by [[Substack]].<ref name=TWD>{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Andrew|title=See You Next Friday: A Farewell Letter|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/andrew-sullivan-see-you-next-friday.html |website=New York|date=July 17, 2020|access-date=July 20, 2020}}</ref><ref name=Recker>{{cite magazine |last1=Recker |first1=Jane |title=Substack Is Attracting Big DC Journos. Who's Making the Leap? |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/12/22/substack-is-attracting-big-dc-journos-whos-making-the-leap/ |magazine=[[Washingtonian (magazine)|Washingtonian]] |date=December 22, 2020 |access-date=25 February 2021 |archive-date=9 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409202546/https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/12/22/substack-is-attracting-big-dc-journos-whos-making-the-leap/ |url-status=live }}</ref>