Frank Rich

Frank Rich serves as Writer-at-Large for New York magazine, writing monthly on politics and culture, and editing a special monthly section anchored by his essay. He is also a commentator on nymag.com, engaging in regular dialogues on the news of the week. He joined the magazine following a distinguished career at The New York Times where he had been an op-ed columnist since 1994 focusing on politics and popular culture, his position when he appeared at The Progressive Forum. He was previously the paper's chief drama critic from 1980 to 1993. As op-ed columnist, his weekly 1,500 word essay helped inaugurate the expanded opinion pages that The Times introduced in the Sunday "Week in Review section in 2005. From 1999 to 2003, he was also senior writer for The New York Times Magazine, the dual title was a first for The Times. Rich is also a creative consultant to HBO where is an executive producer of two projects, Veep, a comedy series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and a documentary on Stephen Sondheim. A native of Washington, D.C., he graduated from Harvard where he was editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson. The Greatest Story Ever Sold provides a step-by-step chronicle of how the Bush administration's highest priority was not to vanquish Al Qaeda after 9/11, but to fashion a war against an enemy who did not attack America, Iraq, and creating a propaganda Presidency. His other books include Hot Seat: Theater Criticism for The New York Times, 1980-1993 (1998) and Ghost Light: A Memoir (2000). This past speaker page shares his podium presentation as well as the Q&A.