Richard Just
Richard Just is editor of The New Republic. He was previously the magazine's executive editor, managing editor, deputy editor and online editor, and before that editor of the American Prospect Online and a writing fellow at the American Prospect. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 2001, with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. At Princeton, he was the editor in chief of the Daily Princetonian. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, and The Washington Monthly. He is also a founder and director of the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program, which annually brings twenty high school students from low-income backgrounds to Princeton's campus for a ten-day seminar on journalism.
“Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, 'Duck.”