Andrew Sullivan is out at New York magazine & says reason he’s leaving is “self-evident”

Conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan
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Conservative pundit Andrew Sullivan is leaving New York magazine after reaching a “mutual decision” that it was time for him to move on. Sullivan has written a column for the outlet since 2016.

The gay conservative made a name for himself as an early champion of same-sex marriage rights, but his career has been marked with numerous controversies surrounding his work. Most recently, he authored a column pronouncing the fight for LGBTQ rights over – echoing columns he wrote in 1996 and 2007 that declared the “end of AIDS” – that was met with widespread derision

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“Andrew and I agreed that his editorial project and the magazine’s, though overlapping in many ways, were no longer the right match for each other,” New York editor in chief David Haskell said in a memo to staff.

Sullivan announced the news on Twitter.

“This will be my last week at New York Magazine,” Sullivan tweeted. “I’m sad because the editors I worked with there are among the finest in the country, and I am immensely grateful to them for vastly improving my work.”

“I have no beef with my colleagues, many of whom I admire and are friends,” he continued.

“The underlying reasons for the split are…

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