Doug Henwood
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Doug Henwood
Born December 7, 1952 (age 59)
Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
Education Yale University
University of Virginia
Occupation Writer
Spouse Liza Featherstone
Doug Henwood (born December 7, 1952) is an American journalist who
writes frequently about economic affairs. He publishes a newsletter,
Left Business Observer, that analyzes economics and politics from a
left-wing perspective, and is a contributing editor at The Nation.
Contents [hide]
1 Early years
2 Writing
3 Radio
4 Family
5 References
6 External links
[edit]Early years
Henwood was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, and grew up in Westwood, New
Jersey. He received a B.A. in English from Yale University in 1975.
Late in high school and while at Yale, Henwood identified as a
conservative, briefly joining the Party of the Right, which Henwood
wrote about in an article in The Nation entitled "Partying on the
Right":
Sometime late in high school, I fell under the spell of Milton
Friedman and Bill Buckley, and about the first thing I did when I got
to college was join the Party of the Right (POR).
>From 1976-9, Henwood did graduate work in English at the University of
Virginia, concentrating on British and American poetry and critical
theory but left before obtaining his doctorate. He then worked for two
years as a copywriter and assistant to a medical publisher in New
York.
[edit]Writing
In September 1986, Henwood launched Left Business Observer.[1] Topics to which he has devoted coverage include: Income distribution and poverty in the U.S. and elsewhere in the First World the globalization of finance and production the worldwide attack on pensions Third World debt and development the International Monetary Fund and World Bank the media business the influence of foundations on politics and culture what it means to be a leftist in a world that seems to have forgotten what that means Henwood has written three books. His first, The State of the USA Atlas (1994), is a social atlas of the U.S. in the Pluto atlas series. This was followed in 1997 by Wall Street (Verso Books), in which Henwood described the workings of high finance. His most recent work is After the New Economy (New Press, 2003), an analysis of the 1990s boom and bust. His writing has also appeared in The Nation, Grand Street, Village Voice, Newsday, Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian (UK). [edit]Radio
Henwood began hosting Behind the News in 1996, a weekly radio show and podcast produced at KPFA and, formerly, WBAI. The show features interviews with activists, intellectuals and academics, preceded by a summary of recent economic headlines.[2] Notable former guests include Noam Chomsky, James K. Galbraith, Christopher Hitchens, Lewis Lapham, George McGovern, Joseph Stiglitz, Gore Vidal, and Slavoj Žižek.[3] On November 11, 2010, Henwood announced that he would be retiring Behind the News in its current form, instead broadcasting from another venue as well as on his website. This change arose from an interim producer's decision to reschedule Henwood's show to Saturdays and reduce its airtime to twice a month despite Henwood's having raised substantial funds during the network's previous fund drive, conditions that the host found unacceptable.[4] [edit]Family
He is married to journalist Liza Featherstone. They live in Brooklyn with their young son. [edit]References
^ Left Business Observer ^ Behind the News with Doug Henwood | KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley ^ Doug Henwood's radio archives ^ My farewell to Thursdays at 5 State of the U.S.A. Atlas, by Doug Henwood (1994) ISBN 978-0671796969 Wall Street, by Doug Henwood (1997) ISBN 0-86091-670-7 [1] After the New Economy, by Doug Henwood (2003) ISBN 1-56584-770-9 Partying on the Right, by Doug Henwood, February 6, 2003, The Nation [edit]External links
Left Business Observer with brief bio LBO News ("blog") Free downloadable version of Wall Street "Unconventional Wisdom: An Interview with Doug Henwood" by Bhaskar Sunkara (The Activist, 21 February 2010) "Interview with Doug Henwood" by Joel Schalit (Tikkun, Jan-Feb 2005) "Economic Unorthodoxy: An Interview with Doug Henwood" (24 April 2004) "The Invisible Recovery: An Interview with Doug Henwood" (Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages, 26 November 2003) "The 'New Economy' and the Speculative Bubble: An Interview with Doug Henwood" (Monthly Review, April 2001) "Bubbles: An Interview with Doug Henwood", by Christian Parenti (Alternative Press Review, Spring 2001) "The Marxist Wall Street Couldn't Ignore", by Annalee Newitz, Salon.com, December 1998 Doug Henwood at the Internet Movie Database [hide] v t e Pacifica Radio Network Stations KPFA • KPFK • WBAI • KPFT • WPFW • Pacifica Radio affiliates Programs Alternative Radio • Against the Grain • Between the Lines • CounterSpin • Democracy Now! • Explorations • Flashpoints • Free Speech Radio News • Something's Happening • Wakeup Call Persons Current: Aimee Allison • Dennis Bernstein • Blase Bonpane • Don Bustany • Pratap Chatterjee • Deepa Fernandes • Jack Foley • Amy Goodman • Juan González • Doug Henwood • Michio Kaku • Sasha Lilley • Nicole Sawaya • Jeremy Scahill • Roy Tuckman Historical: Charles Amirkhanian • Larry Bensky • Mary Frances Berry • Jerry Brown • Marc Cooper • Bob Fass • Dorothy Healey • Lewis Hill • Pauline Kael • Saul Landau • Julianne Malveaux • William Mandel • Richard Pryor • Kenneth Rexroth • Susan Stone • Chris Strachwitz • Elsa Knight Thompson • Alan Watts Related articles Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation • Public broadcasting • National Federation of Community Broadcasters