PREVIEW: Andrew Sullivan
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.6 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Sullivan is one of the most influential political writers of his generation.
He became the face of the gay marriage fight, after writing the first major American article arguing for it in 1989. His 1995 book, Virtually Normal, became a bible of the marriage equality movement.
Andrew had moved to America to get his PhD in politics from Harvard in the '80s, after studying at Oxford.
As a gay, British, Catholic conservative in America, he dominated debates - on television as well as in writing - on everything from AIDS to Iraq to Obama.
Andrew pioneered online journalism as one of the first superstar "bloggers". He wrote for the likes of London's Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, the Atlantic, Time magazine, the New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He now publishes The Weekly Dish on Substack.
Josh and Andrew discuss his gay marriage fight, the opposition from gays, the transgender culture wars, HIV/AIDS, the "LGBTQ+ community", Andrew's college life in Reagan's America, and how he won over a conservative country to a radical agenda (and how liberals might do it again).
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