Franklin Foer
Encyclopedia
Franklin Foer (ˈfɔər) is an American journalist and editor-at-large for The New Republic. Foer is a 2012 Bernard L. Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation
as of Sept. 1, 2011.
and freelance journalist Joshua Foer
.
He graduated from Columbia University
and lives in Washington, D.C.
.
and New York
magazine..
From 2006 to 2010, he was the editor of American magazine The New Republic
.
His book How Soccer Explains the World
was published in 2004.
Foer was editor of The New Republic during the Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy
.
New America Foundation
The New America Foundation is a non-profit public policy institute and think tank with offices in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, CA. It was founded in 1999 by Ted Halstead, Sherle Schwenninger, Michael Lind and Walter Russell Mead....
as of Sept. 1, 2011.
Personal life
Franklin Foer is the son of Albert Foer, a lawyer, and Esther Safran Foer and the elder brother of novelist Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...
and freelance journalist Joshua Foer
Joshua Foer
Joshua Foer is a freelance journalist living in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, with a primary focus on science. He was the 2006 U.S.A...
.
He graduated from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
and lives in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
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Career
Franklin Foer has written for SlateSlate (magazine)
Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...
and New York
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
magazine..
From 2006 to 2010, he was the editor of American magazine The New Republic
The New Republic
The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
.
His book How Soccer Explains the World
How Soccer Explains the World
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Terrorism is a book written by American journalist Franklin Foer...
was published in 2004.
Foer was editor of The New Republic during the Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy
Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy
The Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy concerns the publication of a series of diaries by Scott Thomas Beauchamp – a private in the United States Army, serving in the Iraq War, and a member of Alpha Company, 1-18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division.In 2007, using the pen...
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External links
- Video discussion/debate with Foer and Paul GlastrisPaul GlastrisPaul Glastris is an American journalist and political columnist. Glastris is the current editor in chief of The Washington Monthly and was President Bill Clinton's chief speechwriter from September 1998 to the end of his presidency in early 2001. Before 1998, Glastris was a correspondent for U.S....
on Bloggingheads.tvBloggingheads.tvBloggingheads.tv is a political, world events, philosophy, and science video blog discussion site in which the participants take part in an active back and forth conversation via webcam which is then broadcast online to viewers...