He found his niche when The New York Times hired him to cover intellectual matters. He then started his peripatetic career at newspapers and Catholic publications. After graduating in 1952 he studied philosophy and English at the University of Toronto, where he also edited the campus newspaper. John was born in Hoboken New Jersey but as a teenager commuted to Manhattan to attend Regis High School an elite Jesuit institution on the Upper East Side. John took on his own bosses in the 1990s when he joined others in criticizing Time-Warner for its ownership of Interscope records, a major producer of gangsta rap. Some are beginning to wonder if they have any more healing powers than a good bartender.” He wrote that the three greatest thinkers of all time were Aristotle, Freud, and Groucho Marx. On another occasion he wrote, “many psychiatrists now doubt they are engaged in a legitimate profession. While he adopted a mildly conservative view, he had no use for the extreme liberalism found on campus.įor his Time column, John created a couple, the conservative curmudgeon Ralph and his feminist wife Wanda, whose arguments were a means, he wrote, of dealing quickly and lightly “with the decade’s deluge of weird therapies and odd self-realization manuals.” When Wanda updates Ralph on the new sexual vocabulary, Leo says “swingers had become ‘many friended’ and group sex had turned into ‘sharing.’ It was fun skewering all the gassy euphemisms.”
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He analyzed the intense debates about sexuality and free speech and the like. The New York Times had hired him as its first reporter on intellectual matters, and that set the course of his career. Before that he had written a column for the Village Voice and after that he took his column to U.S. John moved around among many publications but his stint at Time, from 1974 to 1988, was the longest. He was a conservative with a light touch and a sense of humor and played an important role in the cultural debates of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. John Leo, 86, a columnist for Time magazine in the days when magazines mattered (see What’s News Section), died in the Bronx in May.A Conservative Columnist With a Light Touch
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