Martin Peretz

Martin Peretz (also Marty Peretz) is a Harvard lecturer who is the owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, which he purchased in 1975. Under his leadership, the magazine has generally taken hawkish and pro-Israel stances in foreign affairs, while advocating liberal and neoliberal positions on economic and social issues. Critics haved accused Peretz of steering TNR towards neoconservatism.

Quotes

• "I have been in love only three times in my life. I was in love with my college roommate. I am in love with the state of Israel and I love Gene McCarthy." (told to Blair Clark in 1968; quoted in Washington Babylon, p. 6)