Michal Leibowitz returns to Times Opinion

I’m excited to announce that Michal Leibowitz is rejoining Opinion as a staff editor, adding her broad ideas and interests and her excellent editorial skills to our firepower as we increase coverage of the 2024 election.

Michal will edit Ross Douthat’s Friday newsletter on politics and culture and will also commission and edit guest essays in those fields. She will also edit other columnists, newsletters and the blog during holidays and difficult times such as the conferences and the run-up to the elections.

During her last stint at The Times, Michal supported Ross and David Brooks as an editorial assistant. She also commissioned and edited guest essays on culture and politics; One of the pieces we worked on together was Stanley Kurtz’s essay ‘The Battle for the Soul of the Library’, in which I saw up close Michal’s enthusiasm for heterodox ideas and thinkers, as well as her strategic instincts and collegial approach in working with writers. She also wrote lively opinion essays about courtship, individualism, and life after the pandemic. Previously, she was associate editor of The Jewish Review of Books.

Michal holds a BA in philosophy and religious studies and an MA in religious studies from Stanford University.

Please join me in welcoming her back to The Times.