1. Leon Wieseltier is an American critic and magazine editor.
11 Facts About Leon Wieseltier
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Leon Wieseltier attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush, Columbia University, Oxford University, and Harvard University.
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Leon Wieseltier was a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows.
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The magazine's owner, Marty Peretz, discovered Leon Wieseltier, then working at Harvard's Society of Fellows, and installed him in charge of the section.
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Leon Wieseltier edited and introduced a volume of works by Lionel Trilling entitled The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and wrote the foreword to Ann Weiss's The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a collection of personal photographs that serves as a paean to pre-Shoah innocence.
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In January 2016, it was announced that Leon Wieseltier would be joining Laurene Powell Jobs to form a new publication devoted to exploring the effects of technology on people's lives.
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In 2020, Leon Wieseltier launched a quarterly journal called Liberties, which was described as being dedicated to "the rehabilitation of liberalism".
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Mr Leon Wieseltier often commented on what women wore to the office.
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On October 27,2017, Leon Wieseltier was fired by The Atlantic.
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Leon Wieseltier was fired by the Brookings Institution, where he had been the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy.
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Leon Wieseltier was a frequent target of the satirical monthly Spy magazine.