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Aug 30, 2020 · The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose blog Mr. Sullivan once promoted when they were both at The Atlantic, wrote that more than any other writer, “Andrew Sullivan taught me how to think...
Aug 8, 2021 · In one of the most interesting (and likely most contentious) essays in the book, Sullivan addresses head-on what was probably the most controversial moment of his career.
Aug 8, 2021 · There’s a review of the book in today’s New York Times (click on screenshot below), and it’s surprisingly positive. I say “suprisingly” because, after four years as a writer for the NYT Magazine, Sullivan was fired in 2002.
- On The Andrew Sullivan Production Function
- On Self-Medication
- On Niall Ferguson, Boris Johnson, and British Politics
- On Women in Politics
- On Things Under- and Overrated
- On Wokeism
COWEN: Now since I’ve nominated you as the most influential public intellectual of our generation, I would like to start with some questions about the Andrew Sullivan production function. SULLIVAN: Okey doke. COWEN:So let’s go back in time. At some point you learn you’re HIV/AIDS-positive. How did that possible risk of premature death affect your p...
COWEN: You mentioned before mushrooms. How do you think that self-medication — whether it be mushrooms, marijuana, testosterone, something else — influences the actual content of your ideas? SULLIVAN: Of course it influences them. Let me give you an example. I’m a daily weed smoker. I have been since I was 36; I was a late bloomer on this. For me, ...
COWEN: Now, as an undergraduate, you knew and were friends with Niall Ferguson. What was he like back then? SULLIVAN: Pretty much the same. We were a little wilder, to be honest. We were a little brassier and a little more interested in just comedy. We published a little ramshackle magazine that poked fun at the toffs, at the Etonians. We both thou...
COWEN: Why is there so much residual British hatred of Margaret Thatcher — so to call her Maggie the Milk Snatcher? You’ll still hear that. Like, who cares? How long ago was that? The milk, whatever. What is it about her that so set off her enemies? SULLIVAN: It’s funny because when I was a kid, I always used to fight with [Keir] Starmer all the ti...
COWEN: Now, in the middle of all these conversations, we have a segment: “Overrated vs. Underrated.” I toss out a name, a place, an idea; you tell me if you think it’s overrated or underrated. When you’re ready? SULLIVAN: Awesome. Yes, I’m ready. Go ahead. COWEN: Elton John: overrated or underrated? SULLIVAN: Just trying to figure it out. I think h...
COWEN: If we look at the world as a whole and recognize there’s some globalized element to culture and just to ask the simple question, “The world as a whole, should it be more woke or less woke?” Which would you prefer? SULLIVAN:As a whole? Well, no one — COWEN:There’s Pakistan, right? There’s how gay people are treated — SULLIVAN: Right, right, r...
Aug 10, 2021 · Andrew Sullivan is arguably one of the most controversial journalists of our time, and it's easy to see why: he's passionate, outspoken, and heterodox--a conservative, homosexual, HIV-positive, Catholic, English immigrant who embraced blogging early on and has no qualms about speaking his mind.
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Oct 31, 2022 · I discovered Andrew Sullivan through a podcast that explored his new book “Out on a Limb”. I was and continue to be fascinated by how he explores ideas and frameworks for thinking in this ...
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Oct 13, 2021 · Public life—not just politics, but intellectual and even spiritual life as well—is, for the Sullivan of the ’90s and 2000s, not a matter of striving to achieve any great aspirations, or to hold ourselves and one another to values any higher than mere recognition.
