In the winter of 1983, I was 25 and working at The New York Times as an editor on the op-ed page. In those days the Times’s staff for editing outside daily commentary was tiny—four people—and I was responsible for most of the pieces on domestic policy, then, as now, my principal professional interest. The pay was handsome ($110,000 in today’s dollars), and I loved living in New York City—then, as now, a powerful magnet for recent college graduates. It was a dream job, and my parents relished the
Often called the “godfather of neoliberalism,” the core policy doctrine of the magazine, Charles Peters was the Monthly’s editor from 1969 until his retirement in 2001. He also wrote five books on politics, government, and history.
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