Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
From 1994 to 1997, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker. He has also written for The New York Review of, The Atlantic Monthly, National Review and Foreign Affairs. As a freelance journalist, he has written many book reviews and other articles for the New York Times.
He also wrote a book on Kofi Annan and the United Nations.
New York City is the subject or background of several of his books His 2004 book The Devil"s Playground was about the history of Times Square, including its decline as a center of adult businesses in the 1990s to its redevelopment under Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was also the subject of several feature articles he wrote for the New York Times Magazine.
He has written extensively on education issues, including his 1994 book City On A Hill, a profile of City College of New York, written after he spent 18 months on campus. He wrote a study of school reform called Better By Design for the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation that profiled ten approaches to school reform.
He has also written articles about the Number Child Left Behind Acting and school choice.
He is the son of Marvin Traub, formerly chairman of Bloomingdale"s, and Lee L. Traub, chair emerita of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University (where his father attended both college and business school). He taught at the Maulana Azad College in Aurangabad, India.
His recent writing focuses on politics and international affairs, including profiles of Barack Obama, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore and John McCain. He was also a reporter for the New York Post and a senior editor of the Saturday Review.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.