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Philip Terzian
Literary Editor
Recent articles by Philip Terzian
Philip Terzian, knockin' on heaven's door.
Vol. 15, No. 47, August 30 - September 6, 2010
Excruciating scholarly adoration.
6:56 PM, August 19, 2010
The former congressman and his sympathetic friends in the press.
3:43 PM, August 12, 2010
Vol. 15, No. 40, July 5 - July 12, 2010
Vol. 15, No. 38, June 21, 2010
A contrarian view.
10:35 AM, June 8, 2010
An unlikely Tory/LibDem alliance?
12:59 PM, May 7, 2010
The president doesn't need to follow a pointless trend.
4:40 PM, April 19, 2010
Philip Terzian, techno-dinosaur.
Vol. 15, No. 29, April 19, 2010
And its opponents.
3:59 PM, March 5, 2010
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Philip Terzian has been Literary Editor since 2005.

A native of the Washington, DC, area, he has been a journalist since the early 1970s: Reporter and editor at the Anniston (Ala.) Star, Reuters, and US News & World Report; assistant editor of the New Republic; assistant editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times; associate editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald; and editor of the editorial pages at The Providence Journal. During 1978-79 he was a speechwriter for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.

For 19 years he wrote a syndicated column for the Scripps-Howard news service, was a Pulitzer finalist for commentary, has reported from a dozen foreign countries, and been a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Harper's, The American Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. He has been a Pulitzer juror and media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.  His new book, Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower and the American Century, will be published by Encounter in June 2010.

Married, and the father of two, he lives in Fairfax County, Virginia.