Martin Peretz quotes this line early in “The Controversialist,” his new memoir, as a style of moralizing he was never crazy about. But the observation suits him.

In his new memoir, The Controversialist, Martin Peretz offers a gritty, propulsive, and fascinating account of his career. (Via Jewish News Syndicate) The art critic Harold Rosenberg once referred ...

In today’s New York Times, Martin Peretz laments the ill effects of Web journalism and blogs on political culture. If insulting noise is the Web’s disease, Peretz’s new blog, The Spine, isn ...

Martin Peretz’s memoirs are an exercise in shallowness. A Skimmer, Not a Plumber - The American Conservative Politics Foreign Affairs Culture Fellows Program Login ...

Martin Peretz is known to all as “Marty,” a jaunty diminutive that captures the essence and aura of a cocksure man who is, as well, cultured and likable. He is also restless, ...

Peretz -- and everyone else -- must know that if his legacy were to be settled as of today, it would be mixed at best. Beloved by many students and respected by some magazine colleagues, but ...

Martin Peretz, former publisher and editor in chief of The New Republic, had a column in the opinion section of yesterday's Wall Street Journal that possesses considerable stunt value: ...

In The Wall Street Journal, Sohrab Ahmari interviews Martin Peretz, who as publisher of the New Republic helped return the Democratic Party from its anti-Vietnam excesses to the foreign-policy ...

That Peretz reached Harvard and thrived there also bears mention considering the times we’re in. Peretz’s book was of course published before the October 7, 2023 tragedy in Israel whereby ...

Martin Peretz is known to all as “Marty,” a jaunty diminutive that captures the essence and aura of a cocksure man who is, as well, cultured and likable. He is also restless, ...