Timothy Noah
Timothy Noah | |
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Born | 1958 (age 65–66)[1] New York City, US |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, author |
Spouses | |
Children | 2 (and 2 stepdaughters) |
Relatives | Peter Noah (brother) Adam Levine (nephew) |
Timothy Robert Noah (born 1958)[1] is an American journalist, author, and a staff writer at The New Republic. Previously he was labor policy editor for Politico, a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, a senior editor of The New Republic[2][3][4] assigned to write the biweekly "TRB From Washington" column, and a senior writer at Slate, where for a decade he wrote the "Chatterbox" column. In April 2012, Noah published a book, The Great Divergence, about income inequality in the United States.
Early life and education
Noah is the son of Marian Jane (née Swentor) and Robert M. Noah, a
Career
Earlier in his career, Noah was an assistant managing editor at
On February 24, 2007, Noah wrote an article for Slate entitled "Evicted from Wikipedia", which critiques the online encyclopedia's notability policy as an illustration of our society's "love affair with invidious distinction," and cited Thorstein Veblen's 1899 critique of consumerism, The Theory of the Leisure Class to this effect.[11]
In 2010, Noah was a
The Great Divergence grew out of a ten-part series
On March 22, 2013, Noah announced over Twitter that he had been fired by The New Republic; he did not know why.[14] Editor Franklin Foer said "Tim Noah has been a strong voice for liberalism and a rigorous columnist for The New Republic. We’ve appreciated his passion and contribution to the magazine over the past two years and wish him the very best."[15] Noah started freelancing a weekly column for the magazine again in 2020, and in September 2021 he rejoined the staff.
Iraq War
In a February 2003 article in Slate,[16] Noah described his initial opposition to the Iraq War and his conversion to the pro-war position by Colin Powell's February 3 speech to the United Nations. After many of Powell's statements were proven false, Noah changed his mind again about the war, praising those who had remained steadfastly against it in an August 2004 column.[17] After that, he became an outspoken critic of the media's ongoing tendency to grant credibility to war boosters, while discounting the views of those who opposed the war from the start.[18]
Personal life
In September 2018, Noah married Sarah McNamer, a medievalist and professor of English at Georgetown University.[19][20]
Noah's first wife, fellow journalist
Noah has two children[22] and two stepchildren. His brother is television writer/producer Peter Noah.[23] His sister, Patsy Noah, co-founded[24] the charity Your Mom Cares. Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine is his nephew.[25]
Selected appearances on CBS News's Sunday Morning
- "Income Immobility in the U.S.," March 17, 2013
- "Ban the Benjamins!," April 3, 2011
- "The Great Divergence" October 24, 2010
- "Why the Filibuster Deserves No Respect," March 14, 2010
- "Celebrity Commencements," May 24, 2009
- "Let Us Now 'Change' The Campaign Rhetoric," September 7, 2008
References
- ^ a b c "Marjorie Williams Marries". The New York Times. 1990-08-12. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
- Politico, September 6, 2011.
- ^ Richard Just, "Home News: TNR Hires Timothy Noah", The New Republic, September 6, 2011.
- The Huffington Post, March 22, 2013
- ^ Marriage Announcement 1 -- No Title
- ^ Noah, Timothy (2008-08-13). "Mary Matalin, Publisher: When political hacks edit books". Slate.com.
- ^ Jack Shafer (Sep 17, 2009). "Murder Draped in Ivy". Slate. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
- ^ "Timothy Noah's Twitter bio". Retrieved 2013-07-09.
- The Washington Monthly. Archived from the originalon 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2007-02-27.
- ^ "Staff: Who We Are". Slate. Archived from the original on 2011-06-23. Retrieved 2007-02-27.
- ^ Noah, Timothy (February 24, 2007). "Evicted From Wikipedia". Slate.
- ^ "The Great Divergence"
- ^ "The Sidney Hillman Foundation Announces 2011 Prizes for Exemplary Reporting that Fosters Social and Economic Justice | Hillman Foundation". Archived from the original on 2012-05-12. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
- ^ Timothy Noah [@TimothyNoah1] (March 22, 2013). "I just got fired from @tnr. Don't have a clue why. Anybody got a job?" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ J.K. Trotter, Timothy Noah Is Out at The New Republic and Twitter Wants to Know What Happened The Atlantic 22 March 2013
- ^ Timothy Noah (February 10, 2003). "Chatterbox Goes to War". Slate.
- ^ Timothy Noah, Can You Forgive Them?, Slate, August 20, 2004
- ^ Timothy Noah, How Did I Get Iraq Wrong? Wrong Question.
- ^ Sherman, Jake; Palmer, Anna; Lippman, Daniel; Ross, Garrett; Okun, Eli (17 December 2018). "POLITICO Playbook PM: The shutdown puzzle pieces". POLITICO. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
- ^ "Timothy Noah website".
- ^ Meghan O'Rourke (November 9, 2005). "Marjorie Williams: A journalist who made feminism matter". Slate.
- ^ Block, Melissa (28 November 2005). "Marjorie Williams: 'Woman at the Washington Zoo'". NPR. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
- ISBN 9781783230037 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Adam Levine and Jonah Hill's Moms Are BFFS — and Teaming up to Help Kids in Need". People.
- ^ Timothy Noah (January 20, 2009). "Inaugorophobia, Part 2". Slate. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
My rock-star nephew Adam Levine and my sister Patsy, both visiting from Los Angeles, did not.