Twenty-two years a New York Times columnist; a staff writer at The Atlantic since February 2026; one link from Laurene Powell Jobs
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Jonathan Hare's favorite political commentator, in his own words (S-181), and on this page for that reason and one other: he is a link away from Laurene Powell Jobs, whose magazine he now writes for. Public record, at web grade: a New York Times op-ed columnist from 2003 until January 2026, when The Atlantic announced he was joining it full-time as a staff writer — he had long been a contributing editor there — with a weekly podcast on the moral and institutional underpinnings of decency, supported by Yale, where he became a presidential senior fellow. Before the Times: The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard; a PBS NewsHour commentator since 2001; chair of Weave, the Aspen Institute's social-fabric project. Books include Bobos in Paradise, The Social Animal, The Road to Character, The Second Mountain and How to Know a Person.
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Wilson's magazine of choice for his excerpts; sponsor of his 2006 Aspen Ideas keynote — the path where Hare met him with Bill Joy; owned since 2017 by Emerson Collective
Open →her magazineA year ahead at Stanford GSB; a symphony series; a borrowed Ferrari that was Steve Jobs's. Now: Emerson Collective, The Atlantic, and a network the record wants to reach
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