John B. Judis is an author and American journalist, an editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo, a former senior writer at the National Journal and a former senior editor at the New Republic. He has also been a contributing editor of GQ, a columnist for the American Prospect, and a founding editor, and for many years the Washington correspondent, of In These Times. Judis is the author of five books: William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives; Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American Century; The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust; The Emerging Democratic Majority (with Ruy Teixeira); and The Folly of Empire.

Judis was born in Chicago and attended Amherst College and the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received a BA and an MA, in philosophy.

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