In 1982 Cockburn was suspended from The Voice for "accepting a $10,000 grant from an Arab studies organization in 1982." In 1984, Cockburn became a regular contributor to The Nation with a column called "Beat the Devil", named after the novel written by his father. In 1979 Cockburn and Ridgeway co-wrote Political Ecology. James Ridgeway later noted that "Murdoch, when he owned the Voice, was said to gag on some of Alex's pointed epithets, but he never did anything about it." In 1975 Cockburn wrote Idle Passion: Chess and the Dance of Death. His interview of Rupert Murdoch in The Voice preceded Murdoch's purchase of the paper. United States Part of a series onĬockburn moved to the United States in 1972, and contributed pieces to The New York Review of Books, Esquire, Harper's, and from 1973 to 1983 The Village Voice, originating in the latter the longstanding "Press Clips" column. In 1968, Cockburn published a letter to The Times supporting British socialists protesting the Vietnam War. In 1967 Cockburn co-edited The Incompatibles: Trade Union Militancy and the Consensus with Robin Blackburn, which Blackburn described as " together trade-union organizers, leftwing journalists including Paul Foot, Marxist economists and two liberals- Michael Frayn and Philip Toynbee-who mocked the demonization of union activists by Labour as well as Conservative pundits." In 1969 the pair also co-edited Student Power: Problems, Diagnosis, Action, contributors to which included Herbert Marcuse, Perry Anderson, and Tom Nairn. He was also assistant editor at the Times Literary Supplement, and in 1967 worked at New Statesman. Career United Kingdom Ĭockburn graduated from Oxford in 1963, after which he worked at the New Left Review, becoming its managing editor in 1966. He later studied English at Keble College, University of Oxford. Ĭockburn grew up between his family home in Ireland and Glenalmond College, an independent boys' boarding school, in Perthshire, Scotland. Actress Olivia Wilde is his niece, daughter of his brother Andrew Cockburn. In addition, journalists Laura Flanders and Stephanie Flanders are his half-nieces, daughters of his half-sister Claudia Cockburn and her husband Michael Flanders. His half-sister, the barrister and mystery writer Sarah Caudwell, died in 2000. His two younger brothers, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, are also journalists. His ancestral family included Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, who was responsible for the burning of Washington in the War of 1812. ![]() He was the eldest son of the former Communist author and journalist, Claud Cockburn, by his third wife, Patricia Byron, née Arbuthnot (who also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight). 3.3 Support of US constitutional rightsĪlexander Cockburn was born on June 6, 1941, in Scotland and grew up in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland.
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