Jonathan Benjamin Chait was born on May 1,1972 and is an American pundit and writer for New York magazine.
17 Facts About Jonathan Chait
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Jonathan Chait was previously a senior editor at The New Republic and an assistant editor of The American Prospect.
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Jonathan Chait writes a periodic column in the Los Angeles Times.
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Jonathan Chait's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, and Reason.
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Jonathan Chait took over The New Republic's TRB column from Peter Beinart in March 2007.
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Jonathan Chait was named a finalist for the 2009 Ellie in the Columns and Commentary category for three of his 2008 columns.
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On March 16,2009, Jonathan Chait appeared on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report to counter conservative arguments that the New Deal was a failure.
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Jonathan Chait appears in The Rivalry, a 2007 HBO documentary about the history and culture of the Michigan-Ohio State football rivalry.
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Jonathan Chait joined the staff of New York magazine on September 6,2011, leaving his post as senior editor of The New Republic.
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Jonathan Chait was a supporter of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
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Jonathan Chait strongly criticized the editorial staff of The Detroit Free Press after a controversial article by Michael Rosenberg that alleged systematic infractions of NCAA rules by the university's football team under former head coach Rich Rodriguez.
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On September 26,2011, Jonathan Chait, while admitting he had not read Gilad Atzmon's book The Wandering Who, in order to assess the context of a number of quotes, responded to John Mearsheimer's comment about Atzmon's book by citing passages which he regarded as characteristically antisemitic.
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On January 27,2015, Jonathan Chait wrote an article for New York magazine on political correctness, which he labeled "a system of left-wing ideological repression" and cited examples from academia and social media.
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Jonathan Chait's piece drew parallels between forms of political correctness popular in the 2010s with those popular in the 1990s.
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In February 2016, Jonathan Chait wrote a piece for New York magazine titled "Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination," in which he predicted that a Trump presidency would develop similarly to the governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger in California.
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Jonathan Chait has been criticized for often failing to disclose his wife's career in charter school advocacy.
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Jonathan Chait is married to Robin Joy Jonathan Chait, an analyst and pro-charter school advocate.