Steven Lagerfeld is the editor of The Wilson Quarterly, the flagship publication of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , located in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential Memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968...

.

Career

Lagerfeld was born in New York City and received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 in 1977. Before joining the editorial staff of The Wilson Quarterly in 1981, he was assistant managing editor of The Public Interest

The Public Interest

The Public Interest was a quarterly public policy journal founded by established New York intellectuals Daniel Bell and Irving Kristol in 1965. It was a leading neoconservative journal on political economy and culture, aimed at a readership of journalists, scholars, and policy makers...

. He was named editor of the WQ in 1999, replacing Jay Tolson.

Lagerfeld's articles have been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The New Republic

The New Republic

The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

, The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

, and elsewhere.

External links

• The Wilson Quarterly