Fred Siegel is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute

Progressive Policy Institute

The Progressive Policy Institute is a think tank in the United States, founded in 1989 which styles itself as promoting the ideas of "New Democrats." It covers a very wide range of issues and describes itself as centrist, although progressive critics frequently describe it as conservative,...

 (a center-left think tank closely affiliated with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council

Democratic Leadership Council

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) who focuses on urban policy and politics. He also serves as a professor of history and the humanities at Cooper Union

Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...

 and is a contributor to numerous publications, including The New York Post

New York Post

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 (where he has a weekly column), The New Republic

The New Republic

The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

, The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic Monthly

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, Commonwealth, Tikkun

Tikkun

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, and TELOS (journal)

TELOS (journal)

Telos is an academic journal published in the United States. It was founded in May 1968 to provide the New Left with a coherent theoretical perspective. It sought to expand the Husserlian diagnosis of "the crisis of European sciences" to prefigure a particular program of social reconstruction...

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In the past he has served as the political advisor to several political candidates in New York City

New York City

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, including former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. He is also the author of several books, including The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life and The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities.

He is the father of writer and editor Harry Siegel

Harry Siegel

Harry Siegel is the City Hall columnist for the Village Voice. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.-Biography:Siegel is a lifelong resident of the Brooklyn area of New York City. He graduated from Brandeis University, Siegel worked at The New York Sun as an editorial writer and the paper's...

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Selected publications

• “Is Archie Bunker Fit to Rule? Or: How Immanuel Kant
  Immanuel Kant
  Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....
  
   Became One of the Founding Fathers”. Telos 69 (Fall 1986). New York: Telos Press.
• “The Godfather of American Liberalism”. City-Journal (Summer 2009). New York: City Journal (New York).

External links

• Cooper Union Faculty Page Professional Biography
• The Progressive Policy Institute Brief professional biography.
• City Journal Archive of Fred Siegel essays.
• Q&A on Fred Siegel & Rudy Giuliani on National Review Online Interview with NRO editors.
• CitiesonaHill.org Blog on Urban Affairs co-written by Fred and Harry Siegel.
• Contentions Blog Posts by Siegel for Commentary Magazine.
• Manhattan Institute Seigel's Collection of writings for the Manhattan Institute
• Huffington Post Page Siegel's Collection of Writings for the Huffington Post
• PBS Interview PBS interview of Siegel in 2002 about the New York Governor's Race and Education Spending
• Broookings Institute Transcript of "Governing Gotham" a discussion on Giuliani's legacy with Siegel, David Brooks (journalist)
  David Brooks (journalist)
  David Brooks is a Canadian-born political and cultural commentator who considers himself a moderate and writes for the New York Times...
  
  , and Michael Tomasky
  Michael Tomasky
  Michael Tomasky is a liberal American columnist, journalist and author. He is the editor in chief of Democracy, a special correspondent for Newsweek / The Daily Beast, a contributing editor for The American Prospect, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books.-Biography:Tomasky was born...
  
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