60-544: [REDACTED] Look up sully in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sully may refer to: Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (born 1951), American pilot notable for landing his disabled airliner on the Hudson Sully (film) , a 2016 film by Clint Eastwood about Sullenberger Places [ edit ] France [ edit ] Sully, Calvados , commune in
120-515: A Harkness Fellowship , one of many scholarships spawned in emulation of the Rhodes program." In 1994, Sullivan published excerpts on race and intelligence from Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's controversial The Bell Curve , which argued that some of the measured difference in IQ scores among racially defined groups was a result of genetic inheritance . Almost the entire editorial staff of
180-475: A conservative and is the author of The Conservative Soul . He has supported a number of traditional libertarian positions, favouring limited government and opposing social interventionist measures such as affirmative action . But on many controversial public issues, including same-sex marriage, social security , progressive taxation , anti-discrimination laws , the Affordable Care Act ,
240-407: A birth certificate or other piece of medical evidence to prove Trig is indeed Palin's biological son. Sullivan eventually endorsed Obama for president, largely because he believed Obama would restore "the rule of law and Constitutional balance"; he also argued that Obama represented a more realistic prospect for "bringing America back to fiscal reason" and expressed hope that Obama could "get us past
300-808: A character in Kerosene by Chris Wooding Sully, a character in Danger Rangers Sully, a character in Commando Sully, a character in The Perfect Storm Sully, a character in The Warriors and its video game adaptation Victor Sullivan , a character in the Uncharted game series Other uses [ edit ] Sully (band) Sully (dog) , service dog used by George H.W. Bush Sully ,
360-432: A character in Kerosene by Chris Wooding Sully, a character in Danger Rangers Sully, a character in Commando Sully, a character in The Perfect Storm Sully, a character in The Warriors and its video game adaptation Victor Sullivan , a character in the Uncharted game series Other uses [ edit ] Sully (band) Sully (dog) , service dog used by George H.W. Bush Sully ,
420-549: A columnist for The Sunday Times of London. Ross Douthat and Tyler Cowen have suggested that Sullivan is the most influential political writer of his generation, particularly because of his very early and strident support for same-sex marriage , his early political blog, his support of the Iraq War , and his support of Barack Obama 's presidential candidacy. After the cessation of his long-running blog, The Dish , in 2015, Sullivan wrote regularly for New York during
480-661: A difference." He said the "gay rights establishment" was making a tactical error by insisting on protections for gender identity , as he believed it would be easier to pass the bill without transgender people. In a September 2019 Intelligencer column, Sullivan expressed concern that gender-nonconforming children (especially those who are likely one day to come out as gay) might be encouraged to believe that they are transgender when they are not. In November 2019, Sullivan wrote another Intelligencer column on young women who, in their teens, had begun to transition to live as men but later detransitioned . In that article, he discussed
540-401: A fraught and controversial topic, has seen their once-crankish, outlandish-seeming idea become the conventional wisdom so quickly, and be instantiated so rapidly in law and custom." As of 2007, Sullivan opposed hate crime laws, arguing that they undermine freedom of speech and equal protection . In 2014, Sullivan opposed calls to remove Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla for donating to
600-665: A newspaper, Sullivan won a scholarship in 1984 to Harvard University , where he earned a Master in Public Administration in 1986 from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. in government in 1990. His dissertation was titled Intimations Pursued: The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott . Sullivan first wrote for The Daily Telegraph on American politics. In 1986, he went to work for The New Republic magazine initially on
660-659: A play about the life of Clive Sullivan , produced by Hull Truck Theatre French cruiser Sully , an armoured cruiser launched in 1901, run aground and wrecked in 1905 Pavillon de l'Horloge , also known as the Pavillon Sully, in the Palais du Louvre in Paris See also [ edit ] Sully-la-Chapelle , Loiret département , France Sully-sur-Loire , Loiret département , France Sulley (disambiguation) Sulli (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
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780-555: A proponent of "legitimation", seeing the objective of the gay rights movement as "mainstreaming gay and lesbian people" rather than "radical social change". Sullivan wrote the first major article in the U.S. advocating for gay people to be given the right to marry, published in The New Republic in 1989. According to one columnist for Intelligent Life , many on "the gay left," aiming to alter social codes of sexuality for everyone, were chagrined at Sullivan's endorsement of
840-400: A radical break with the past, for pursuing two objectives—like liberty and authority, or change and continuity—that seem to all ideologues as completely contradictory." As a youth, Sullivan was a fervent supporter of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan . He says of that time, "What really made me a right-winger was seeing the left use the state to impose egalitarianism—on my school", after
900-633: A summer internship; among the most significant articles he wrote were "Gay Life Gay Death", an essay on the AIDS crisis, and "Sleeping with the Enemy", in which he attacked the practice of " outing ", both of which earned him recognition in the gay community. He was appointed the editor of The New Republic in October 1991, a position he held until 1996. In that position, he expanded the magazine from its traditional roots in political coverage to cultural issues and
960-480: A town Sully, West Virginia , an unincorporated community Sully County, South Dakota Sully Historic Site , Fairfax County, Virginia Fort Sully (Fort Leavenworth) , an American Civil War artillery battery built west of Fort Leavenworth in 1864 Fort Sully (South Dakota) (1863–1894), a military post originally built for the Indian Wars Sully Creek (South Dakota) People with
1020-404: A town Sully, West Virginia , an unincorporated community Sully County, South Dakota Sully Historic Site , Fairfax County, Virginia Fort Sully (Fort Leavenworth) , an American Civil War artillery battery built west of Fort Leavenworth in 1864 Fort Sully (South Dakota) (1863–1894), a military post originally built for the Indian Wars Sully Creek (South Dakota) People with
1080-435: Is Michael Oakeshott . Sullivan describes Oakeshott's thought as "an anti-ideology, a nonprogramme, a way of looking at the world whose most perfect expression might be called inactivism." He argues "that Oakeshott requires us to systematically discard programmes and ideologies and view each new situation sui generis . Change should only ever be incremental and evolutionary. Oakeshott viewed society as resembling language: it
1140-540: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages sully [REDACTED] Look up sully in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sully may refer to: Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (born 1951), American pilot notable for landing his disabled airliner on the Hudson Sully (film) , a 2016 film by Clint Eastwood about Sullenberger Places [ edit ] France [ edit ] Sully, Calvados , commune in
1200-589: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Andrew Sullivan Andrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is a British-American political commentator . Sullivan is a former editor of The New Republic , and the author or editor of six books. He started a political blog, The Daily Dish , in 2000, and eventually moved his blog to platforms, including Time , The Atlantic , The Daily Beast , and finally an independent subscription-based format. He retired from blogging in 2015. From 2016 to 2020, Sullivan
1260-526: Is learned gradually and without us really realising it, and it evolves unconsciously, and for ever." In 1984, he wrote that Oakeshott offered "a conservatism which ends by affirming a radical liberalism." This "anti-ideology" is perhaps the source of accusations that Sullivan "flip-flops" or changes his opinions to suit the whims of the moment. He has written, "A true conservative—who is, above all, an anti-ideologue—will often be attacked for alleged inconsistency, for changing positions, for promising change but not
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#17327646512421320-557: Is the primary source of his alienation from the modern Republican Party. In 2009, Forbes ranked Sullivan 19th on a list of "The 25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media". Sullivan rejected the " liberal " label and set out his grounds in a published article in response. In 2018, after Sarah Jeong , an editorial board member of The New York Times , received widespread criticism for her old anti-white tweets, Sullivan accused her of being racist and calling white people "subhuman". He also accused Jeong of spreading eliminationism,
1380-627: The 2016 presidential election , and in 2017 began writing a weekly column, "Interesting Times", for the magazine. On July 19, 2020, after the unexplained absence of his column for June 5, Sullivan announced that he would no longer write for New York and would be reviving The Dish as a newsletter, The Weekly Dish , hosted by Substack . Defunct Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other Sullivan describes himself as
1440-619: The George W. Bush era. Born and raised in Britain, Sullivan has lived in the U.S. since 1984. He is openly gay and a practicing Catholic. Sullivan was born in South Godstone , Surrey, England, into a Catholic family of Irish descent, and was brought up in the nearby town of East Grinstead , West Sussex. He was educated at a Catholic primary school and at Reigate Grammar School , where his classmates included Prime Minister of
1500-508: The Labour government in Britain tried to merge his admissions-selective school with the local comprehensive school . At Oxford, he became friends with prominent conservatives William Hague and Niall Ferguson and became involved with Conservative Party politics. From 1980 through 2000, Sullivan supported Republican presidential candidates in the U.S., with the exception of the 1992 election, when he supported Bill Clinton . In 2004, he
1560-558: The September 11 attacks in 2001; in an essay for The Sunday Times , he wrote, "The middle part of the country—the great red zone that voted for Bush—is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead—and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column ." Eric Alterman wrote in 2002 that Sullivan had "set himself up as a one-man House Un-American Activities Committee " running an "inquisition" to unmask "anti-war Democrats", "basing his argument less on
1620-640: The Uncharted video game series Fictional characters [ edit ] Byron Sully, in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Jake Sully , protagonist of the 2009 film Avatar Sully the Aardvark , from Jungle Jam and Friends: The Radio Show! Sully and Biff , on Sesame Street Sulley, a character in Monsters Inc. Sully, a character in Fire Emblem Awakening Sully,
1680-399: The Uncharted video game series Fictional characters [ edit ] Byron Sully, in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Jake Sully , protagonist of the 2009 film Avatar Sully the Aardvark , from Jungle Jam and Friends: The Radio Show! Sully and Biff , on Sesame Street Sulley, a character in Monsters Inc. Sully, a character in Fire Emblem Awakening Sully,
1740-430: The controversy over a 2018 journal article by Lisa Littman that proposed a socially mediated subtype of gender dysphoria that Littman had termed " rapid onset gender dysphoria ". In April 2021, he said it should be illegal for doctors to initiate cross-sex hormones for children under 16 or sex reassignment surgery for children under 18. In 1996, Sullivan's book Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality won
1800-489: The "assimilation" of gay people into "straight culture." In the wake of the United States Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage in 2013 ( Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor ), The New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat suggested that Sullivan might be the most influential political writer of his generation, writing: "No intellectual that I can think of, writing on
1860-466: The Florida Gators baseball team Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907), French poet, essayist and Nobel laureate Andrew Sullivan (born 1963), English-American journalist and political-blogging pioneer Anthony Sullivan (pitchman) (born 1969), English-American advertising figure Clive Sullivan (1943–1985), rugby player John 'Sully' Sullivan , from Third Watch Victor Sullivan , from
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1920-402: The Florida Gators baseball team Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907), French poet, essayist and Nobel laureate Andrew Sullivan (born 1963), English-American journalist and political-blogging pioneer Anthony Sullivan (pitchman) (born 1969), English-American advertising figure Clive Sullivan (1943–1985), rugby player John 'Sully' Sullivan , from Third Watch Victor Sullivan , from
1980-672: The Mencken Award for Best Book, presented by the Free Press Association. In 2006, Sullivan was named an LGBT History Month icon. Sullivan supported the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq and was initially hawkish in the war on terror , arguing that weakness would embolden terrorists. He was "one of the most militant" supporters of the Bush administration's counter-terrorism strategy immediately following
2040-550: The Republican nomination. After John McCain clinched the Republican primary and named Sarah Palin as his running mate, Sullivan began to espouse a birther -like conspiracy theory involving Palin and her young son Trig. Sullivan devoted a significant amount of space in The Atlantic to questioning whether Palin is Trig's biological mother. He and others who held this belief, dubbed "Trig Truthers", demanded Palin produce
2100-861: The Sicilian King Charles of Anjou Maurice de Sully (died 1196), Bishop of Paris who oversaw the building of Notre Dame Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1560–1641), French soldier, statesman and minister who served King Henry IV of France William, Count of Sully (c. 1085–c. 1150), Count of Blois, Count of Chartres and jure uxoris Count of Sully, also known as William the Simple Nickname [ edit ] Salvatore Sully Erna (born 1968), lead vocalist of Godsmack Carlos Aneese Sully Kothmann (1933–1986), American pair skater Sully Montgomery (1901–1970), American National Football League player, boxer and sheriff Kevin O'Sullivan (baseball) (born 1968), head coach of
2160-723: The Sicilian King Charles of Anjou Maurice de Sully (died 1196), Bishop of Paris who oversaw the building of Notre Dame Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1560–1641), French soldier, statesman and minister who served King Henry IV of France William, Count of Sully (c. 1085–c. 1150), Count of Blois, Count of Chartres and jure uxoris Count of Sully, also known as William the Simple Nickname [ edit ] Salvatore Sully Erna (born 1968), lead vocalist of Godsmack Carlos Aneese Sully Kothmann (1933–1986), American pair skater Sully Montgomery (1901–1970), American National Football League player, boxer and sheriff Kevin O'Sullivan (baseball) (born 1968), head coach of
2220-589: The U.S. government was required to abide by the rules of war —in particular, Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions —when dealing with such detainees. In retrospect, Sullivan said that the torture and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq had jolted him back to "sanity". Of his early support for the invasion of Iraq, he said, "I was terribly wrong. In the shock and trauma of 9/11, I forgot
2280-462: The U.S. government's use of torture , and capital punishment , he has taken positions not typically shared by conservatives in the United States . In 2012, Sullivan said, "the catastrophe of the Bush–Cheney years ... all but exploded the logic of neoconservatism and its domestic partner-in-crime, supply-side economics ." One of the most important intellectual and political influences on Sullivan
2340-545: The US and the ease of democratic transitions in Eastern Europe into thinking we could simply fight our way to victory against Islamist terror. I wasn't alone. But I was surely wrong." His reversal on Iraq and increasing attacks on the Bush administration caused a severe backlash from many hawkish conservatives, who accused him of not being a "real" conservative. Sullivan authored an opinion piece, "Dear President Bush," that
2400-687: The United Kingdom Keir Starmer and Conservative member of the House of Lords Andrew Cooper . He won a scholarship in 1981 to Magdalen College, Oxford , where he was awarded a first-class Bachelor of Arts in modern history and modern languages. He founded the Pooh Stick Society at Oxford and in his second year was elected president of the Oxford Union for Trinity term 1983. After writing briefly for
2460-577: The belief that political opponents are a societal cancer who should be separated, censored, or exterminated. In 1996, discussing HIV , he argued in the New York Times Magazine that "this plague is over" insofar as "it no longer signifies death. It merely signifies illness." This led to "a trend of white male journalists proclaiming that AIDS is over", according to Sarah Schulman. Sullivan, like Marshall Kirk , Hunter Madsen, and Bruce Bawer , has been described by Urvashi Vaid as
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2520-558: The campaign for Proposition 8 , which made same-sex marriage illegal in California. In 2015, he claimed that "gay equality" had been achieved in the U.S. by the persuasive arguments of "old-fashioned liberalism" rather than the activism of "identity politics leftism." In 2007, Sullivan said he was "no big supporter" of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act , arguing that it would "not make much of
2580-497: The country's past virtues. What could possibly be more conservative than that?" Sullivan has declared support for Arnold Schwarzenegger and other like-minded Republicans. He argues that the Republican Party, and much of the conservative movement in the U.S., has largely abandoned its earlier scepticism and moderation in favour of a more fundamentalist certainty, both in religious and political terms. He has said this
2640-431: The culture war." Sullivan continued to maintain that Obama was the best choice for president from a conservative point of view. During the 2012 election campaign , he wrote, "Against a radical right, reckless, populist insurgency, Obama is the conservative option, dealing with emergent problems with pragmatic calm and modest innovation. He seeks as a good Oakeshottian would to reform the country's policies in order to regain
2700-512: The department of Calvados Sully, Oise , commune in the department of Oise Sully, Saône-et-Loire , commune in the department of Saône-et-Loire Château de Sully , Saône-et-Loire department Sully-sur-Loire , commune in the department of Loiret United Kingdom [ edit ] Sully, Vale of Glamorgan , a village in Wales Sully Island , an island of Wales United States [ edit ] Sully, Iowa ,
2760-443: The department of Calvados Sully, Oise , commune in the department of Oise Sully, Saône-et-Loire , commune in the department of Saône-et-Loire Château de Sully , Saône-et-Loire department Sully-sur-Loire , commune in the department of Loiret United Kingdom [ edit ] Sully, Vale of Glamorgan , a village in Wales Sully Island , an island of Wales United States [ edit ] Sully, Iowa ,
2820-471: The magazine threatened to resign if material that they considered racist was published. To appease them, Sullivan included lengthy rebuttals from 19 writers and contributors. He has continued to speak approvingly of the research and arguments presented in The Bell Curve , writing, "The book ... still holds up as one of the most insightful and careful of the last decade. The fact of human inequality and
2880-508: The politics surrounding them. During this time, the magazine generated several high-profile controversies. While completing graduate work at Harvard in 1988, Sullivan published an attack in Spy magazine on Rhodes Scholars , "All Rhodes Lead Nowhere in Particular", which dismissed them as "hustling apple-polisher[s]"; "high-profile losers"; "the very best of the second-rate"; and "misfits by
2940-491: The principles of scepticism and doubt towards utopian schemes that I had learned." On the 27 October 2006 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher , Sullivan described conservatives and Republicans who refused to admit they had been wrong to support the Iraq War as "cowards". On 26 February 2008, he wrote on his blog: "After 9/11, I was clearly blinded by fear of al Qaeda and deluded by the overwhelming military superiority of
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#17327646512423120-713: The subtle and complex differences between various manifestations of being human—gay, straight, male, female, black, Asian—is a subject worth exploring, period." According to Sullivan, this incident was a turning point in his relationship with the magazine's staff and management, which he conceded was already bad because he "was a lousy manager of people." He left the magazine in 1996. Sullivan began writing for The New York Times Magazine in 1998, but editor Adam Moss fired him in 2002. Jack Shafer wrote in Slate magazine that he had asked Moss in an email to explain this decision, but that his emails went unanswered, adding that Sullivan
3180-483: The surname or nickname [ edit ] Sully (surname) As a placename within a person's name or title [ edit ] Eudes de Sully (died 1208), Bishop of Paris Henry de Sully (died 1195) , monk, Bishop of Worcester and Abbot of Glastonbury Henry de Sully (died 1189) , Abbot of Fécamp, Bishop-designate of Salisbury and Archbishop-elect of York Henry de Sully (died 1336) Hugh of Sully (French: Hugues de Sully), 13th century general under
3240-483: The surname or nickname [ edit ] Sully (surname) As a placename within a person's name or title [ edit ] Eudes de Sully (died 1208), Bishop of Paris Henry de Sully (died 1195) , monk, Bishop of Worcester and Abbot of Glastonbury Henry de Sully (died 1189) , Abbot of Fécamp, Bishop-designate of Salisbury and Archbishop-elect of York Henry de Sully (died 1336) Hugh of Sully (French: Hugues de Sully), 13th century general under
3300-402: The very virtue of their bland, eugenic perfection." "[T]he sad truth is that as a rule," Sullivan wrote, "Rhodies possess none of the charms of the aristocracy and all of the debilities: fecklessness, excessive concern that peasants be aware of their achievement, and a certain hemophilia of character." Author Thomas Schaeper notes that "[i]ronically, Sullivan had first gone to the United States on
3360-514: The words these politicians speak than on the thoughts he knows them to be holding in secret". Later, Sullivan criticised the Bush administration for its prosecution of the war, especially regarding the numbers of troops, protection of munitions, and treatment of prisoners, including the use of torture against detainees in U.S. custody. He argued that enemy combatants in the war on terror should not have been given status as prisoners of war because "terrorists are not soldiers", but he believed that
3420-687: Was a writer-at-large at New York . He launched his newsletter The Weekly Dish in July 2020. Sullivan has said that his conservatism is rooted in his Catholic background and in the ideas of the British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott . In 2003, he wrote that he could no longer support the American conservative movement, as he was disaffected with the Republican Party 's continued rightward shift toward social conservatism during
3480-664: Was angered by George W. Bush 's support of the Federal Marriage Amendment designed to enshrine in the Constitution marriage as a union between a man and a woman, as well as what he saw as the Bush administration's incompetent management of the Iraq War, and supported Democratic nominee John Kerry . Sullivan endorsed Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 United States presidential election , and Representative Ron Paul for
3540-430: Was featured as the cover article of the October 2009 edition of The Atlantic . In it, he called on Bush to take personal responsibility for the incidents and practices of torture that occurred during his administration as part of the war on terror. Sullivan has said that he has "always been a Zionist ", but his views of Israel have become more critical over time. In February 2009, he wrote that he could no longer take
3600-482: Was not fully forthcoming on the subject. Sullivan wrote on his blog that the decision had been made by Times executive editor Howell Raines , who found Sullivan's presence "uncomfortable", but defended Raines's right to fire him. Sullivan suggested that Raines did so in response to Sullivan's criticism of the Times on his blog, and said he had expected that his criticisms would anger Raines. Sullivan has also worked as
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