Michael tomasky biography
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Michael Tomasky
American journalist (born 1960)
Michael John Tomasky (born October 13, 1960[1]) is an American columnist, progressive commentator, and author. He is the editor of The New Republic[2] and editor in chief of Democracy. He has been a special correspondent for Newsweek, The Daily Beast, a contributing editor for The American Prospect, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Life and career
[edit]Tomasky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, the son of Maria (Aluisi) and Michael Tomasky, a trial attorney.[3] He is of Serbian and Italian descent.[4][5] He graduated from Morgantown High School.[6] He attended West Virginia University as an undergraduate and then studied political science in graduate school at New York University. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Harper's Weekly, The Nation, The Village Voice,
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The Virtues and Vices of a Faltering Republic: On Michael Tomasky’s “If We Can Keep It”
Edward Watts considers "If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved," the recently published book by Michael Tomasky.
If We Can Keep It by Michael Tomasky. Liveright, 2019. 288 pages.
THE PAST THREE and a half years have forced many Americans to consider the significant differences between a democracy and a republic. In a democracy, all eligible citizens cast votes that count equally. Most decisions are made by a simple majority of voters, and if that majority opinion changes, the decision can quickly be unmade. This is the system most famously run by the Athenians in the Classical period — and that Athenian experience prompted men as diverse as Plato and James Madison to fear giving too much power to mobs of citizens. They were, Madison wrote, prone to “disturbing the public tranquility” by inciting “too strongly the public passions.”
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Tomasky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. He attended West Virginia University as an undergraduate and then studied political science in graduate school at New York University. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Harper's Weekly, The Nation, The by Voice, The New York Review of Books, Dissent, Lingua Franca, George, and GQ. He lives with his wife (Sarah) and daughter (Margot Julianna Kerr Tomasky, born July 6, 2010) in Silver Spring, Maryland.
From 1995 to 2002, Tomasky was a columnist at New York, where he wrote the "City Politic" column. He was later executive editor of The American Prospect, and remains a contributing editor. On October 23, 2007 Guardian amerika was launched with Tomasky as its editor. On March 3, 2009 he replaced Kenneth Baer as editor of U.S. political journal Democracy, at whi