Leon Wieseltier

Leon Wieseltier
Wieseltier in 2015
Born	(1952-06-14) June 14, 1952 (age 72) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Columbia University Balliol College, Oxford Harvard University
Occupations	Editor critic
Spouses	Mahnaz Ispahani ​ ​ (m. 1985; div. 1994)​ Jennifer Bradley ​ ​ (m. 2000, divorced)​
Awards	Dan David Prize (2013)

Leon Wieseltier (/ˈviːzəltɪər/; born June 14, 1952) is an American critic and magazine editor. From 1983 to 2014, he was the literary editor of The New Republic. He was a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic until 2017, when the magazine fired him following allegations and an admission by Wieseltier of multiple instances of sexual harassment. In 2020, he became the editor of Liberties, a quarterly literary review.