Join our conversation with
The New Republic editor Michael Tomasky on foreign policy after 9/11, based on an article in the September issue:
“Are We Any Smarter?” Our foreign policy wise people responded to 9/11 by embracing belligerence. What, if anything, have they learned?
With:
- Madiha Afzal—David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution
- Heather Hurlburt—director, New Models of Policy Change, New America
- Jordan Michael Smith—journalist, author
- Moderated by TNR editor Michael Tomasky
Madiha Afzal is the David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and the author of
Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State. She previously worked as an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. In addition, she writes for publications including
Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Dawn, and Newsweek.
Heather Hurlburt is the director of the New Models of Policy Change project at New America‘s Political Reform program. Hurlburt is a contributor to New York magazine and has published articles in
Politico, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Fortune, Vox, and Time, among other publications. She co-hosts the Drezburt podcast and frequently appears in print and broadcast media. Previously, she ran the National Security Network, a premier source for internationalist foreign policy messaging and advocacy, held senior positions in the White House and State Department under President Bill Clinton, and worked on Capitol Hill and for the International Crisis Group.
Michael Tomasky is editor of
The New Republic, and is a longtime liberal writer, editor, and commentator. Most recently, he was a columnist and editor at
The Daily Beast and remains editor of
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a quarterly journal based in Washington, both positions he’s held for around a decade. Before that, he was the first U.S. editor of
The Guardian as it expanded its American operations, and before that, the editor of
The American Prospect. He contributes frequently to
The New York Review of Books and The New York Times. Tomasky is the author of five books, most recently
If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How It Can Be Saved. He lives in Rockville, Maryland, with his wife and daughter.
Jordan Michael Smith is an award-winning journalist, ghostwriter, and speechwriter. He is the author of the bestselling Kindle Single
Humanity: How Jimmy Carter Lost an Election and Transformed the Post-Presidency, and he collaborated on two nonfiction books to be published in 2022. He is a former speechwriter for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer, and a former communications consultant at the United Nations. His writing has appeared in print and online for many publications, including
The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, the BBC, and MSNBC.
