A True Humanist
City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture —
Congratulations are in order for my friend and colleague Myron Magnet, one of nine people whom President Bush honored today with a prestigious National Humanities Medal. Myron richly deserves the award, both for his work as an editorunder his leadership, City Journal became one of the nations most respected and influential intellectual magazinesand as a literary and cultural critic of extraordinary perceptiveness, a worthy heir to Lionel Trilling. Working with Myron at City Journal was an education in itself. Arriving at the magazine in late 1997 as senior editor, I had ...
November 18 roundup
Overlawyered —
... Congrats to historian Rick Brookhiser and City Journal editor Myron Magnet, among recipients of 2008 National Humanities Medal [White House release, ...


