Andrew Sullivan is a senior editor of The Atlantic, a columnist for The Sunday Times of London, and author, most recently, of The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back. His widely read and influential blog, the Daily Dish is published at The Atlantic.com. Before joining The Atlantic, Sullivan was an essayist and blogger for TIME. He is a contributing editor of The New Republic, where he was editor-in-chief from 1991-1996. Sullivan holds a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.

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