{{notability|date=January 2026}} {{Short description|American journalist (born 1952)}} {{Infobox person | name = Douglas Francis Henwood | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|12|07}} | birth_place = [[Teaneck, New Jersey]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | education = [[Yale University]]<br>[[University of Virginia]] | occupation = Writer | known_for = Economic and cultural analysis | notable_works = ''Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom'' | spouse = [[Liza Featherstone]] | children = 1 | relatives = | awards = | years_active = <!-- YYYY – present --> | credits = | website = {{URL|lbo-news.com}} }} '''Doug Henwood''' (born December 7, 1952) is an American writer. Until 2013,<!-- from https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/ "LBO ceased publication in 2013. Sorry. There are still plenty of articles on the site however." accessed 22 February 2021 --> he published a newsletter, ''Left Business Observer'', that analyzed [[economics]] and [[politics]] from a [[left-wing politics|left-wing]] perspective. He is a contributing editor at ''[[The Nation]]''.
== Early life and education == Henwood was born to Harold and Victorine Henwood in [[Teaneck, New Jersey]], and grew up in [[Westwood, New Jersey]]. As a youth, he was acquainted with [[Marxism]], but he briefly self-identified with [[conservatism]] toward the end of high school. According to Henwood: "Sometime late in high school, I fell under the spell of [[Milton Friedman]] and [[William F. Buckley Jr.|Bill Buckley]], and about the first thing I did when I got to college was join the [[Yale Political Union#Party of the Right|Party of the Right]] (POR). I got tired of all the pompous rituals, and political sanity returned, bringing me back to the left from which I'd started."<ref name="party">{{cite journal |last=Henwood |first=Doug |date=February 7, 2003 |title=Partying on the Right |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/partying-right/ |journal=The Nation |url-access=limited |access-date=2012-01-07}}</ref>
Henwood received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in English from [[Yale University]] in 1975. After college, he worked as secretary to the chair of a small [[Wall Street]] brokerage firm headed by a former [[Bell Labs]] physicist who used [[quantitative analysis (finance)|quantitative analysis]] techniques in the mid-1970s, predating the later widespread adoption of similar methods on Wall Street.<ref>{{cite book |last=Henwood |first=Doug |url=https://archive.org/details/wallstreethowitw00henw |title=Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom |publisher=Verso |year=1997 |isbn=978-0860914952 |location=New York |url-access=registration}}</ref>
From 1976 to 1979, Henwood pursued a doctorate in English at the [[University of Virginia]], but left before completing his dissertation. He then worked for two years as a [[copywriter]] and assistant to a medical publisher in New York.<ref>{{cite web |last = Henwood |first = Doug |title = Henwood bio |publisher = Left Business Observer |url = http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/DH_bio.html |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}</ref>
==Career== === Writing === In September 1986, Henwood launched ''Left Business Observer'' (LBO) ({{ISSN|1042-0134}}).<ref>{{cite web |title = About LBO |publisher = Left Business Observer |year = 2001 |url = http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/LBO_about.html |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}</ref>
In 1992, Henwood worked with [[John Liscio]] on ''The Liscio Report on the Economy.'' In 2000, after Liscio's death, Henwood and Phillipa Dunne, a business partner, inherited ''The Liscio Report'' and continue to publish it.<ref>{{cite web |title = About Us |work = The Liscio Report on the Economy |publisher = TLR Publishing |year = 2007 |url = http://www.theliscioreport.com/about.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040103031833/http://theliscioreport.com/about.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2004-01-03 |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}</ref>
Henwood has written four books. His first, ''The State of the USA Atlas'' (1994), is a social atlas of the U.S. in the [[Pluto Press]] atlas series. This was followed in 1997 by ''Wall Street'' ([[Verso Books]]),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fox |first=Justin |date=2012-08-03 |title=The Wall Street Book Everyone Should Read |url=https://hbr.org/2012/08/the-wall-street-book-everyone |access-date=2024-04-18 |work=Harvard Business Review |issn=0017-8012}}</ref> in which Henwood describes the workings of high finance, and then by ''After the New Economy'' ([[The New Press]], 2003), an analysis of the 1990s boom and bust. Henwood's most recent book is ''My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency'' ([[Seven Stories Press]], 2016).
His articles have appeared in ''[[The Nation]]'', ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Grand Street (magazine)|Grand Street]]'', ''[[The Village Voice]]'', ''[[Newsday]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The Guardian]]'', and ''[[Extra!]]''. He is a contributing editor at ''The Nation''.<ref>{{cite web |title = Doug Henwood |work = Authors |date = 2 April 2010 |publisher = The Nation |url = http://www.thenation.com/authors/doug-henwood |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}</ref>
=== Radio and other media === Henwood began hosting the weekly radio show and podcast ''Behind the News'' in 1996. It is produced at [[KPFA]] and, formerly, [[WBAI]]. Henwood had been a regular contributor to [[Samori Marksman]]'s show starting in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |title=Behind the News with Doug Henwood |url=http://www.kpfa.org/behindthenews |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090120050421/http://kpfa.org/behindthenews |archive-date=2009-01-20 |access-date=2014-05-08 |publisher=KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley}}</ref> Notable guests include [[Noam Chomsky]], [[James K. Galbraith]], [[Christopher Hitchens]], [[Lewis H. Lapham]], [[George McGovern]], [[Joseph Stiglitz]], [[Gore Vidal]], [[Yanis Varoufakis]], and [[Slavoj Žižek]].<ref>{{cite web |title=''Behind the News'': Doug Henwood's radio archives |url=http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html |access-date=2014-05-08 |publisher=Left Business Observer}}</ref>
On November 11, 2010, Henwood announced his retirement from ''Behind the News'' under WBAI''.''<ref>{{cite web |last = Henwood |first = Doug |title = My farewell to Thursdays at 5 |publisher = LBO News from Doug Henwood |date = Nov 11, 2010 |url = http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/11/my-farewell-to-thursdays-at-5 |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}</ref>
In 2017, ''Behind the News'' was picked up by [[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]] for its Jacobin Radio Podcast.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Warm Welcome to Behind the News |url=https://jacobin.com/2017/03/behind-news-doug-henwood-jacobin-radio-podcast/ |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=jacobin.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
Henwood appeared in Lapham's dramatic documentary film ''[[The American Ruling Class]]''.
== Personal life == Henwood is married to journalist [[Liza Featherstone]]; they live in [[Brooklyn]] with their son.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lbo-news.com/2011/09/23/visiting-the-occupiers-of-wall-street/|first=Doug|last=Henwood|date=September 23, 2011|title=Visiting the occupiers of Wall Street|website=LBO News}}</ref> He is a member of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Open Letter to US Congressional Representatives marking our opposition to the US Innovation and Competition Act (USICA)/ COMPETES Act |url=https://international.dsausa.org/usica-letter/ |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=DSA International Committee |language=en}}</ref>
== Books == Henwood has written four books and is working on a fifth.<ref>{{cite web |title = Book info |publisher = Left Business Observer |url = http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Book_info.html |access-date = 2014-05-08 }}</ref> * ''[[iarchive:stateofusaatlasc00henw|State of the U.S.A. Atlas]]'' (1994), {{ISBN|978-0-671-79696-9}} * ''[[iarchive:wallstreethowitw00henw|Wall Street]]'' (1997), {{ISBN|0-86091-670-7}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wall Street |url=http://www.wallstreetthebook.com/ |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=}}</ref> * ''[[iarchive:afterneweconomy00henw|After the New Economy]]'' (2003), {{ISBN|1-56584-770-9}} * ''[[iarchive:myturnhillarycli0000henw|My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency]]'' (2015), {{ISBN|978-1-682190-32-6}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=My Turn |url=https://www.sevenstories.com/books/3919-my-turn |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=Steven Stories Press}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist|2}}
== External links == * [https://twitter.com/DougHenwood Twitter account] * [http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/ ''Left Business Observer''] (LBO) * [http://lbo-news.com/ LBO News (blog)] * [http://www.wallstreetthebook.com/ Free downloadable version of ''Wall Street''] * {{C-SPAN|49699}} * {{IMDb name|id=2693688}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140425220332/http://theactivist.org/blog/unconventional-wisdom-an-interview-with-doug-henwood "Unconventional Wisdom: An Interview with Doug Henwood"] by Bhaskar Sunkara (''The Activist'', 21 February 2010) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20221201194136/https://brooklynrail.org/2009/07/express/ka-pow-bang-crash-down-goes-another-bubble "Ka-Pow! Bang! Crash! Down Goes Another Bubble!: Doug Henwood in Conversation with Christian Parenti"], ''[[The Brooklyn Rail]]'', (July–August 2009) * [http://www.politicalaffairs.net/economic-unorthodoxy-an-interview-with-doug-henwood/ "Economic Unorthodoxy: An Interview with Doug Henwood"] (24 April 2004, ''[[Political Affairs]]'') * [http://www.monthlyreview.org/0401henwd.htm "The 'New Economy' and the Speculative Bubble: An Interview with Doug Henwood"] (''[[Monthly Review]]'', April 2001) * [http://www.salon.com/1998/12/22/21feature_2/ "The Marxist Wall Street couldn't ignore"], by [[Annalee Newitz]], ''[[Salon.com]]'', December 1998 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140426110149/http://www.theliscioreport.com/ The Liscio Report on the Economy] by Doug Henwood and Phillipa Dunne ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140624060414/http://tlrii.typepad.com/ blog])
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