James Rubin

James Rubin fascinates me because he has lived on both sides of the word. Inside the Clinton State Department he shaped public messaging as assistant secretary; later he turned around and dissected foreign affairs as a Sunday Times columnist. That dual vantage, having wielded power and then critiqued it, is rare and gives his commentary real weight. A Columbia graduate born in 1960, he reads as sharp and forceful. I value voices that understand the machinery of diplomacy from the inside before they presume to judge it from the outside, and Rubin's career embodies precisely that hard-earned authority.

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Name (English)

James Rubin

Name (Japanese)

ジェームズ・P・ルービン

Reading

じぇーむず・P・るーびん

Born

March 28, 1960 (age 66)

Origin

Larchmont, New York, United States

Occupation

journalist / politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rat

University

Columbia University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Rubin
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2895240

Tags

• New York
• journalist
• politician

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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