Win McCormack

Win McCormack is the editor in chief of The New Republic. publisher of Tin House Books, and the author of The Rajneesh Chronicles: The True Story of the Cult that Unleashed the First Act of Bioterrorism on U.S. Soil. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Harvard College and the University of Oregon. He holds an AB from Harvard in Government and an MFA from the University of Oregon. McCormack published Oregon Magazine from 1976-1988, and has been an owner and Treasurer of MediAmerica, Inc. (publisher of Oregon Business, Oregon Home, and Travel Oregon magazines) since 1984. He serves on the board of directors of The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (where he held a Junior Fellowship in 1969), which publishes NPQ (New Perspectives Quarterly). He has also been involved in publishing Military History Quarterly and Art and Auction magazines, and is a member of The Nation magazine’s Circle of 100 supporters. McCormack is also a political activist, and was Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart’s presidential campaign in 1984. He is Chair of the Oregon Democratic Party’s President’s Council, a member of the Obama for President Oregon Finance Committee and an Alternate Delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. He writes on politics and social issues, and has written for Oregon Magazine, Tin House, The Oregonian, and Oregon Humanities magazine, and wrote the cover story about the 2000 presidential election in Florida for the March 26, 2001 issue of The Nation entitled “Deconstructing the Election: Foucault, Derrida and GOP Strategy.” He serves on the Oregon Council for the Humanities and the Oregon Tourism Commission and on the Board of Overseers of Emerson College, and is a co-founder of the Liberty Hill Foundation in Los Angeles.