John B. Judis

John B. Judis is an American journalist. Born in Chicago he attended Amherst College and received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a senior editor at The New Republic and a contributing editor to The American Prospect.

A founding editor of Socialist Revolution (now Socialist Review) in 1969 and of the East Bay Voice in the 1970s, Judis started reporting from Washington in 1982, when he became a founding editor and Washington correspondent for In These Times, a democratic-socialist weekly magazine.

He has also written for GQ, Foreign Affairs, Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post.

In 2002, he published a book (co-written with political scientist Ruy Teixeira) arguing that Democrats would retake control of American politics, thanks in part to growing support from minorities and well-educated professionals. The title, The Emerging Democratic Majority, was a deliberate echo of Kevin Phillips’ 1969 classic, The Emerging Republican Majority. The book was named one of the year’s best by The Economist magazine.

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Bibliography

William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1988. 

Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1992. 

The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of the Public Trust. Pantheon Books. 2000. 

The Emerging Democratic Majority. New York: Scribner. 2002

The Folly of Empire : What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. New York: Scribner. 2004. 

Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014. 

The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics. New York: Columbia Global Reports. 2016. 

The Nationalist Revival: Trade, Immigration, and the Revolt against Globalization. New York: Columbia Global Reports. 2018. 

The Socialist Awakening: What’s Different Now about the Left. New York: Columbia Global Reports. 2020. 

The Politics of Our Time: Populism, Nationalism, Socialism. New York: Columbia Global Reports. 2021. 

Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes – 2023