James Kirchick

author of “Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington”

Guest

James Kirchick is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institutioncorrespondent for the Daily Beast and a columnist for Tablet magazine. He is also the author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age.

Kirchick is a former assistant editor at the New Republic. 

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