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Michael Hirsh (born 1957) is an American journalist.[1] He is a columnist forForeign Policy.
He graduatedmagna cum laude fromTufts University in 1979 with a B.A. in philosophy. He took his graduate degree ininternational andpublic affairs atColumbia University.[1]
He was the former national editor forPolitico. He resigned fromPolitico on November 22, 2016, after publishing the home addresses ofwhite nationalist[2]Richard B. Spencer onFacebook.[2] Hirsh called Spencer aNazi after Spencer declared "Hail Trump!" and "Hail our people!" at a conference in Washington, D.C., declarations in response to which audience members performedNazi salutes.[3]
Hirsh is the former foreign editor, chief diplomatic correspondent, and national economic correspondent forNewsweek, as well as a former member ofJournoList. He is a lecturer and has appeared numerous times as a commentator onFox News,CNN,MSNBC,National Public Radio, and is a frequent guest ofThe Young Turks, a streaming internet political talk show. In addition toNewsweek, he has written forThe Washington Post,Politico Magazine,The New York Times Book Review,The New York Review of Books,Foreign Affairs,Harper's, andWashington Monthly. Hirsh was co-winner of theOverseas Press Club award for best magazine reporting from abroad in 2001 for "prescience in identifying theal Qaeda threat half a year before theSeptember 11 attacks" and forNewsweek's coverage of thewar on terror, which also won aNational Magazine Award. Hirsh also co-authored (with Rod Nordland) the November 3, 2003 cover story, "Bush's $87 Billion Mess," about the Iraq reconstruction plan, one of three issues that wonNewsweek its secondNational Magazine Award for General Excellence in three years.[citation needed]
Hirsh lives[when?] inNorthwest, Washington, D.C.[1]
Hirsh's first book,At War with Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World, was described byBill Keller inThe New York Times as "well-informed, historically literate, nonideological common sense. That may sound like faint praise, but in an America that sometimes seems poised between reckless adventure and helpless inertia, centrist common sense is something to be treasured." In his second book,Capital Offense: How Washington's Wise Men Handed America's Future over to Wall Street, Hirsh argues that in the 2008 financial crisis, "otherwise intelligent and capable men like Greenspan, Rubin and Summers and laterHank Paulson andTim Geithner permitted themselves to believe, in the face of a rising tide of contrary evidence, that markets are for the most part efficient and work well on their own."[4] Michiko Kakutani ofThe New York Times called the book "provocative" and noted that while much of its content had previously been covered in books by other authors (namelyNouriel Roubini andStephen Mihm together,David Wessel,Daniel Gross andJoseph E. Stiglitz), Hirsh still "does a highly informed, if decidedly opinionated, job of situating these developments within a historical context, and the book makes for useful and succinct reading".[4]