Hendrik Hertzberg Hendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor at The New Yorker, where he blogs and contributes to the opening “Comment” column in “The Talk of the Town.” He has been an officer in the Navy, editor of The New Republic, and President Jimmy Carter’s chief speech writer. He is the author of Politics: Observations & Arguments, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post and L.A. Times Best Book of the Year. He has won four National Magazine Awards, most recently in 2006 for columns and commentary.