Career
He is editor of The National Interest. His book They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons explores the neoconservative movement and its origins. He was a Japan Society Fellow in 1998.
Heilbrunn is a graduate of Oberlin College.
Heilbrunn is a former editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times and former senior editor for The New Republic. In 1994, he was in Berlin, Germany on an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, where he worked at a weekly called the Wochenpost.