Columnist Andrew Sullivan announces departure from New York magazine

NY Post ^ | 7/14/20 | Aaron Feis

[Libloather]

Prominent conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan announced Tuesday that he will move on from New York magazine at week’s end - on the heels of Bari Weiss’ abrupt resignation from the New York Times’ opinion section.

“This will be my last week at New York Magazine,” wrote Sullivan in the first of a series of tweets blasted out Tuesday afternoon.

“I’m sad because the editors I worked with there are among the finest in the country, and I am immensely grateful to them for vastly improving my work,” he continued in the thread. “I have no beef with my colleagues, many of whom I admire and are friends.”

Though Sullivan described his reasons for leaving as “self-evident,” he did not elaborate further, promising an in-depth explanation in his final piece for the magazine.

“The underlying reasons for the split are pretty self-evident, and I’ll be discussing the broader questions involved in my last column this Friday,” he wrote.

Sullivan’s announcement came just hours after Weiss stepped down from her position as a writer and editor for the Times’ opinion section.

[Will88]

Sullivan was sort of a conservative for a few years after 9/11/2001. He had a blog he called “The Daily Dish” and was pretty conservative for a time. But, whatever year it was, W proposed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Sullivan, being gay, flipped out and that seemed to end his dalliance with conservatism for the several years after 9/11.

Haven’t kept up with him and have no idea what he’s been writing in the years since.

[TChad]

Haven’t kept up with him and have no idea what he’s been writing in the years since.

So you missed his obsession with Trig Palin? Back in 2011 he couldn't stop asserting that Trig was not Sarah Palin's son. It was insane.

Sullivan is HIV+, and I wonder how much the disease or his medications affected him.

He was once a good writer. If he was never quite a conservative, he was at least willing to articulately criticize parts of the left. That alone will get him canceled these days.

[Will88]

f he was never quite a conservative, he was at least willing to articulately criticize parts of the left. That alone will get him canceled these days.

I think he earned most of his early conservative points after 9/11 when took a critical, very non-PC view of Islam. I recall the stories about Trig Palin not being Sarah's son, but didn't remember which writers bought into it.

I still haven't heard a good explanation of why he left New York Magazine, but read that it might be that he'd become too critical of the current cancel culture. Guess his final article in that rag is to be tomorrow, with an explanation of why he left.