# James Traub
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james traub (born 1954) is an American journalist. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he has worked since 1998. From 1994 to 1997, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker.
Capturing the 'central transaction' of schools
If the name James Traub sound familiar to you, there’s a reason for that.
A prolific author of several books including CITY ON A HILL, Traub has also written several memorable education-focused magazine articles for the New York Times magazine and other national publications.
In this new interv...
The $100,000 award-winning reporter who left full-time journalism for philosophy and fiction
You may recall news coming out last month that longtime education journalist Kavitha Cardoza had won a $100,000 journalism award from the Heising-Simons Foundation.
But Cardoza wasn’t the only winner. The other prizewinner that day was unknown-to-me freelance journalist Oliver Whang — or should ...
James Traub — CRADLE OF CITIZENSHIP: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy - with Valerie Strauss
A devastating critique of our failure to prepare students for citizenship—and a roadmap to a better way.
America’s Founders placed great confidence in schools, which they believed would teach young people to understand our political system and to engage in reasoned political debate as adults. Yet...
Civic Education in Person
By Randall Smith
Civics education is all the rage at the moment. And for good reason. In a recent article in Commentary, ("A Republic, If You Can Teach It"), Robert Pondiscio reports the grim news that: "Scores on the long-running National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in history and ...
James Traub on Why American Classrooms Are Failing Democracy
Yascha Mounk and James Traub examine how progressive teaching methods are producing citizens who can't think critically.
James Traub is a journalist, author and scholar. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Institute For The Humanities and the Society of American Hist...
James Traub: When the Bough Breaks
John welcomes author James Traub to discuss his latest book, “The Cradle of Citizenship: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy.” Traub describes the year he spent reporting in K-12 classrooms across the country; the fierce culture wars after the Covid-19 pandemic in many school systems around r...
James Traub | Democratic Resilience Starts in the Classroom
What role do schools play in strengthening democracy? In this episode, award-winning author James Traub argues that civic education remains one of the most important tools for building democratic resilience. From declining attention spans and digital distractions to respectful disagreement and ci...
The Slave Ship and the Mayflower
Can our unruly national story be squeezed into two vessels?
By James Traub
From the August 2026 issue.
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What Was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea Audiobook by James Traub
https://libranovo.com/free Listen to free audiobooks with a 30-day free trial! Title: What Was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble IdeaGenres: History, Politics, Europe, Political IdeologiesAuthor: James TraubNarrator: L.J. GanserRelease date: 09-24-2019Length: 11:39:18Language...
John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit with James Traub
Hi Folks,
On today’s episode, my guest is James Traub, writer, journalist, and author of John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit, which in my estimation, is the best single-volume biography of our 6th president in existence.
Mr. Traub is here with me today to talk about the book, and I feel it only ap...
