Michael Kinsley
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Michael Kinsley (born March 9, 1951) is an American political journalist and commentator.
He became known as both a writer and editor in print media and also as a co-host on Crossfire.
Kinsley has been a central figure in the success of online media.
Early life and education
Kinsley was born in Detroit, Michigan, as the son of Lillian (Margolis) and George Kinsley, who practiced medicine. Kinsley is Jewish. He attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and later graduated from Harvard College in 1972. Kinsley served as vice president of the Harvard Crimson, the university's daily newspaper. He was given a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Magdalen College, Oxford, before returning to Harvard for law school.
Personal life
Patty Stonesifer, a long-serving employee at Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, married Kinsley in 2002. (She had been in charge of the Microsoft news portion of the MSNBC merger, which included Slate). Stonesifer has two adult children from a previous marriage. Martha's Table, a non-profit that creates sustainable alternatives to poverty, is president and CEO.
Kinsley revealed that he had Parkinson's disease in 2002, and that deep brain stimulation, a procedure that helps to minimize its symptoms, was performed on July 12, 2006. The operation went well, according to a humorous letter sent by a Time column anticipating the surgery; Kinsley's first words out of the operating room were "Well, of course, when you cut taxes, government revenues go up."Why couldn't I see that before?"
Early career
Kinsley, a third-year law student, began working at The New Republic. He was able to complete his Harvard juris doctor degree through The George Washington University Law School's evening program.
As moderator of William Buckley's Firing Line, Kinsley was the first exposure of the Firing Line to a national television audience. He became editor of The New Republic in 1979 and wrote the magazine's TRB column for the majority of the 1980s and 1990s. The column was reprinted in a variety of newspaper op-ed pages, including The Washington Post, and it helped Kinsley's fame as a respected political writer. He received the Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary in 1986.
Kinsley was also the managing editor of Washington Monthly (in the mid-1970s while still attending college), editor at Harper's (for a year and a half in the early 1980s), and American editor of The Economist (a short-term, honorary position).