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'''Mark Gauvreau Judge''' (born 1964)<ref name=birds /><ref name=worldcat /> is an American [[author]] and [[journalist]]. He has contributed to ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'', and ''[[First Things]]''.<ref name=anneorourke/>
'''Mark Gauvreau Judge''' (born 1964)<ref name=birds /><ref name=worldcat /> is an American [[author]] and [[journalist]]. He has contributed to ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'', and ''[[First Things]]''.<ref name=anneorourke/> Judge has also written several books throughout his career.


In 2018 it was alleged that Judge participated in the assault of [[Christine Blasey Ford]].<ref name="wp" />
From a young age, Judge observed his father drinking alcohol daily, and this informed and inspired his book ''Wasted'' about his days imbibing heavily and [[alcoholism]].<ref name=barr /> ''If It Ain't Got That Swing'' recounted the author's shift from [[liberalism]] to [[right-wing politics]] as a result of reading ''[[The Culture of Narcissism]]'' by [[Christopher Lasch]].<ref name=kirkusswing /><ref name=szatmary />

''Damn Senators'' chronicled the [[Major League Baseball]] experiences of his grandfather [[Joe Judge]], who played for the [[History of the Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]].<ref name=clark /><ref name=barnes /> ''God and Man at Georgetown Prep'' described the author's partying during his days at [[Georgetown Preparatory School]] and two other Catholic schools of his youth.<ref name=publishersgod /><ref name=mccloskey /> ''A Tremor of Bliss'' discusses the author's journey through sexuality throughout his life, in addition to the response of the [[Catholic Church]] to the changing morays of American society through periods of cultural upheaval.<ref name=jeremylott /><ref name=kenefick />


==Early life==
==Early life==

Revision as of 13:26, 20 September 2018

This article is about an American writer. For the British architect, see Mark Judge.
Mark Judge
Born
Mark Gauvreau Judge

1964 (age 59–60)[1][2]
United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationGeorgetown Preparatory School
OccupationWriter
Years active1989–present
FatherJoseph Judge
RelativesJoe Judge (grandfather)

Mark Gauvreau Judge (born 1964)[1][2] is an American author and journalist. He has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, and First Things.[3] Judge has also written several books throughout his career.

In 2018 it was alleged that Judge participated in the assault of Christine Blasey Ford.[4]

Early life

Judge was born in 1964 to Joseph Judge.[1][2] Judge is the grandson of Joe Judge, a Major League Baseball player for the Washington Senators for the period 1915-1932.[5][6][7] Mark Judge later wrote about his grandfather in his book, Damn Senators: My Grandfather and the Story of Washington's Only World Series Championship (2003).[8][7][9]

Judge grew up in a Washington, D.C. suburb.[10][11] His parents were often inattentive and he observed his father drinking alcohol every day, learning about alcoholism.[10] Judge started drinking at 14.[10]

He attended Georgetown Preparatory School together with Brett Kavanaugh, later a federal court judge and Supreme Court of the United States nominee.[12][13][14] Both Judge and Kavanaugh graduated in 1983.[4]

Career

Judge became a journalist in his early twenties.[10] He was a freelance writer in 1989 in the Washington, D.C. area.[15] By 1990 he had become a contributor to The Progressive, In These Times, and Sojourners.[16] Judge briefly taught at Georgetown University but left in the 1990s.[4] The Virginian-Pilot wrote of Judge's journalism for The Washington Post in 1995, commenting he had learned about people from different social strata through participation in swing dancing in Washington, D.C.[17][18] In 1997 Judge wrote Wasted: Tales of a Gen-X Drunk, a memoir about his youthful alcoholism.[11][10] It includes a character named Bart O'Kavanaugh who passed out and threw up in a car.[19][20][21] The New York Times reviewed the work by Judge, and called it a "naive and earnest" book about alcoholism.[11] The Buffalo News discussed Judge's work for The Weekly Standard in 1997, noting he had written about the benefit of suburbs in American society after World War II.[22][23] The Florida Times-Union commented upon Judge's writing for The Washington Post in 1998, observing he, "advances the proposition that nobody wants to be an adult any more."[24][25] Judge resided in Potomac, Maryland in 1998.[26] Judge was a contributing writer to New York Press in 1999.[27]

His book If It Ain't Got That Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture, was first published in 2000.[28][29] Judge commented upon the societal impact of 1960s subculture and argued that it produced a lethargic teenage culture pervasive throughout the twenty-first century.[30] The book chronicled the period of time in the author's life in which he was transitioning from support of liberalism and instead towards right-wing politics.[31][32] Judge was influenced to give up left-wing politics in favor of right-wing ideology, by the writings of Christopher Lasch, especially his work, The Culture of Narcissism.[31][32] Kirkus Reviews called the book, "Ambitious pop-cult criticism that fails because of its single-mindedness and humorlessness."[31] Library Journal did not recommend the work, concluding, "Displaying little knowledge or understanding of past or current American culture, Judge presents a sophomoric, opinionated diatribe that offers little to any reader."[32] Reason was critical of Judge's point of view, arguing his political bias came through in his work as a form of temporary fad.[33] The Wall Street Journal found the author's thesis to be too simplistic in nature.[34] By February 2001, Judge's book If It Ain't Got That Swing had become a bestseller in the United States.[35] In 2001, Judge was a contributor to the Claremont Review of Books, and wrote about a documentary series by Ken Burns.[36] He was a book reviewer and contributing writer for The Washington Post the same year.[37][6]

Judge's book on his Major League Baseball player grandfather Damn Senators was published in 2003, and The Weekly Standard wrote of the author's description of 1924: "Mark Gauvreau Judge, has beautifully captured the excitement and intensity of that season in Damn Senators."[9] The Boston Globe journalist Michael Kranish was interviewed on Weekend Edition for NPR in 2004, and highlighted Judge's book Damn Senators among his favorite summer reading picks.[38] Human Events wrote of the book, "Mark Judge has done his grandfather and the rest of the Judge family a distinct service by recording and preserving in the pages of this book the story of a forgotten star on a forgotten team in a forgotten time. For that, every Senators fan, not just the members of the Judge family, should be grateful."[5] The Wall Street Journal wrote that Judge "so nicely captured" the "glory of Washington baseball" in Damn Senators.[39] The Washington Times called it an "evocative" work.[40]

Judge published God and Man at Georgetown Prep in 2005.[4][41] Judge wrote that the faculty at Georgetown Prep contained a multitude of homosexual priests.[41] The memoir detailed how he published the school's underground newspaper which had information on wild parties.[4] Publishers Weekly called the book, "a humorous, edgy look at his experiences in three prestigious U.S. Catholic schools."[42] National Catholic Register found Judge's writing to be too vague, commenting, "There are too many theories and too little space."[43] The Wichita Eagle recommended a piece by Judge for Christianity Today in 2006, commenting it evidenced the ability of religious believers to appreciate the good that musical culture can bring to society.[44][45]

Judge's book, A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock 'n' Roll, was published in 2010.[46][47] The Daily Caller wrote that Judge aptly described the impact of rock music on the culture of the 1960s, and explored captivating questions about the Catholic Church's response to changing American culture during the same time period.[48] First Things wrote, "An insightful history of the rise of contraception in the last century provides the most valuable material in A Tremor of Bliss."[49] The publication recommended Judge's work, concluding, "A Tremor of Bliss is a book well worth reading from an author unafraid of showing some 'attitude.'"[49] Jeremy Lott of The Washington Times reviewed the book, concluding, "Mr. Judge proposes a Catholic sexual counterrevolution, though he doesn't want to call it that. What he clearly does want is U.S. Catholic education to play a vital role in countering the current almost-anything-goes culture."[46] Judge led a discussion forum in 2010 on themes in the book, at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C.[3]

Supreme court controversy

Accusations of sexual assault surfaced during Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination.[4] Christine Blasey Ford alleged that in 1982 Judge and Kavanaugh pushed her into a bedroom where Kavanaugh fondled her and attempted to remove her clothing against her will.[4] Judge denied remembering the incident.[50][51][52] Judge also stated he would not testify about the incident before the U.S. Senate.[53][54][55]

Publications

Books

  • Judge, Mark Gauvreau (1997). Wasted: Tales of a Gen-X Drunk. Hazelden. ISBN 978-1568381428.[11][10][4][56]

Selected articles

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Judge, Mark Gauvreau (August 22, 2004), "Washington Baseball Is Not for the Birds", The New York Times, p. SP13, retrieved September 19, 2018 – via InfoTrac
  2. ^ a b c "Judge, Mark Gauvreau (1964 - )", OCLC WorldCat Identities, 2018, retrieved September 19, 2018
  3. ^ a b O'Rourke, Anne (September 8, 2010), "Sex and Catholicism Discussion", The Washington Examiner – via NewsBank, Mark Judge, a journalist whose books include Damn Senators: My Grandfather and the Story of Washington's Only World Series Championship and God and Man at Georgetown Prep: How I Became a Catholic Despite 20 Years of Catholic Schooling. His writings have appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, and the Weekly Standard. {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Selk, Avi (September 17, 2018), "What the man accused of being part of Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault had to say about women's sexuality", The Washington Post, retrieved September 18, 2018
  5. ^ a b c Gilbert, Bill (July 14, 2003), "When Washington's Senators won the world series", Human Events, vol. 59, no. 23, p. 26 – via ProQuest
  6. ^ a b Judge, Mark Gauvreau (August 5, 2001), "My Pitch on Behalf Of a Local Legend", The Washington Post, p. B3 – via ProQuest
  7. ^ a b Clark, Bob (April 13, 2003), "Nine new books step to the plate: 'Damn Senators' by Mark Gauvreau Judge", The Boston Herald, p. 63 – via InfoTrac {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  8. ^ Bender, Bryan (October 1, 2004), "Washington greets prospect of baseball's return with cheers, boos", The Boston Globe – via InfoTrac {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  9. ^ a b c Barnes, Fred (April 28, 2003), "The year the last were first", The Weekly Standard, vol. 8, no. 32, pp. 37–38 – via ProQuest
  10. ^ a b c d e f Barr, Elizabeth (June 29, 1997), "A Pampered Boy's Life, As Seen Through a Buzz (book review)", The Buffalo News – via NewsBank {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  11. ^ a b c d Newman, Michael (June 29, 1997), "Wasted: Tales of a Gen-X Drunk. By Mark Gauvreau Judge. Hazelden.", The New York Times, p. BR20, retrieved September 19, 2018
  12. ^ Kornhaber, Spencer (September 19, 2018), "Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, and the Romanticizing of Teenage Indiscretion", The Atlantic, retrieved September 20, 2018
  13. ^ Kelly, Erin (September 18, 2018), "Who is Mark Judge? Here's what we know about Brett Kavanaugh's classmate", USA Today, retrieved September 20, 2018
  14. ^ Haltiwanger, John (September 18, 2018), "Brett Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge breaks silence about alleged sexual assault incident but says he will not testify", Business Insider, retrieved September 20, 2018
  15. ^ Judge, Mark G. (January 1989), "Censors at Work", The Progressive, vol. 53, no. 1, p. 40 – via ProQuest, Mark G. Judge is a free-lance writer in Washington, D.C.
  16. ^ Judge, Mark G. (December 1990), "Books: Seeing Anew", The Progressive, vol. 54, no. 12, p. 40, Mark G. Judge has contributed to Sojourners, and In These Times as well as The Progressive.
  17. ^ a b Campbell, Cole C. (October 8, 1995), "Suffolk Peanut Fest is one of the crossroads of our community life", The Virginian-Pilot, p. A2 – via NewsBank {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  18. ^ Judge, Mark Gauvreau (October 1, 1995), "Dance of Democracy: The Cheek-to-Cheek Cure for the Alienation That Ails Us", The Washington Post, p. C1 – via ProQuest {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  19. ^ "From the Anonymity of Academia to the Center of a Supreme Court Confirmation", The New York Times, September 19, 2018, retrieved September 20, 2018
  20. ^ Nguyen, Tina (September 19, 2018), "The toxic politics of the G.O.P.'s plan to save Brett Kavanaugh", Vanity Fair, retrieved September 20, 2018
  21. ^ "Accuser's schoolmate says she recalls hearing of alleged Kavanaugh incident", WXXV, NBC News, September 19, 2018, retrieved September 20, 2018
  22. ^ a b "Forget attacks on IDAs; what really hurts our area is - multiplicity of governments", The Buffalo News, p. B2, April 29, 1997 – via NewsBank, Mark Gauvreau Judge wrote about the post-World War II era {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  23. ^ Judge, Mark Gauverau (March 10, 1997), "The New Conservative Attack on the Suburbs", The Weekly Standard, retrieved September 19, 2018
  24. ^ a b Pendleton, Randolph (April 24, 1998), "My modern (overnight) hospital stay", The Florida Times-Union, p. 2 – via NewsBank, For adults only: In a Washington Post article, Mark Gauvreau Judge advances the proposition that nobody wants to be an adult any more. In the past, he said, kids wanted to be adults. Now, adults want to be kids. He may have a point. {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  25. ^ Judge, Mark Gauvreau (April 5, 1998), "All Grown Up And No Place To Go", The Washington Post, p. C1 – via ProQuest
  26. ^ Judge, Mark Gauvreau (April 5, 1998), "All Grown Up And No Place To Go", The Washington Post, p. C1 – via ProQuest, Mark Judge, a writer who lives in Potomac, is author of 'Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk'
  27. ^ Judge, Mark Gauvreau (December 5, 1999), "From Kinda Hi-Fi To Modular Guy", The Washington Post, p. B2 – via ProQuest
  28. ^ a b Brace, Eric (December 28, 2001), "Now That I Think About 2001. . .", The Washington Post, p. 5 – via ProQuest
  29. ^ Judge, Mark Gauvreau (July 9, 2000), "I'm Underhanded, But They Asked for It", The Washington Post, p. B2 – via ProQuest {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  30. ^ a b Eisner, Jane (September 18, 2000), "Popularity of cotillions signals resurgence of adult culture", The Philadelphia Inquirer – via InfoTrac {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  31. ^ a b c d "Book Review: If It Ain't Got That Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture", Kirkus Reviews, Kirkus Associates, LP, May 15, 2000, retrieved September 19, 2018
  32. ^ a b c d Szatmary, Dave (2000), "Book Review: If It Ain't Got That Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture", Library Journal, Reed Business Information {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  33. ^ a b Walker, Jesse (July 2001), "Tales of Gen X Swinger (book review)", Reason, retrieved September 19, 2018
  34. ^ a b Vitullo-Martin, Julia (July 24, 2000), "Let's Face the Music...and Dance", The Wall Street Journal, p. A24 – via ProQuest
  35. ^ a b Norman, Jean (February 10, 2001), "All grown up", The Australian Magazine, Weekend Australian, p. 41 – via NewsBank, In the United States, new bestsellers include - If It Ain't Got That Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-up Culture, by Mark Gauvreau Judge. It argues that the pre-babyboomer generations were happy to appear suave and adult, a culture superseded by the teenager sensibility of rock`n'roll. {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  36. ^ a b Lazo, Dorina (April 29, 2001), "Greece colors novelist's debut", The Fresno Bee, p. E3 – via InfoTrac {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  37. ^ Judge, Mark Gauvreau (August 5, 2001), "The King and I", The Washington Post, p. 15 – via ProQuest {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  38. ^ a b Hansen, Liane (September 5, 2004), "Interview: Michael Kranish talks about his summer reading picks", Weekend Edition, NPR – via NewsBank, My favorite part of 'Damn Senators' was learning who Joe Judge was, a person who I really hadn't heard of. {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  39. ^ a b "Taste -- Review & Outlook: A Capital Idea", The Wall Street Journal, p. W19, July 18, 2003 – via ProQuest {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  40. ^ a b Goode, Stephen (November 10, 2003), "The Thoroughly American Game - Recent books bring to life some of baseball's legendary teams and iconic players, its enduring friendships and the silent, mysterious language that pervades the game.", The Washington Times, p. 36 – via NewsBank {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  41. ^ a b c Duin, Julia (April 19, 2006), "Prep school concedes to abuse charge", The Washington Times, p. B3, retrieved September 19, 2018 – via InfoTrac
  42. ^ a b Dahlin, Robert; Hix, Charles (February 11, 2005), "Spring/Summer Religion Books - Book Review: God and Man at Georgetown Prep: How I Became a Catholic Despite 20 Years of Catholic Schooling", Publishers Weekly, retrieved September 19, 2018
  43. ^ a b McCloskey, John (October 2, 2005), "God and Man at Georgetown Prep by Mark G. Judge - published by Crossroad Publishing, NY, 2005 A Book Review by Father John McCloskey", National Catholic Register, ISSN 0027-8920, retrieved September 19, 2018
  44. ^ a b Schaefer, Tom (November 25, 2006), "Share your spiritual stories of the season", The Wichita Eagle, p. 1F – via NewsBank, Lest you think people of faith should only rail against the evil in culture and not revel in the good, read what Mark Gauvreau Judge has to say in a recent essay titled 'The Gospel of Kurt Elling' on the Christianity Today Web site. {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  45. ^ Judge, Mark Gauvreau (November 2006), "The Gospel of Kurt Elling", Christianity Today, retrieved September 19, 2018
  46. ^ a b c Lott, Jeremy (November 9, 2010), "Book Review: Call for a Catholic sexual counterrevolution", The Washington Times, p. B4, retrieved September 19, 2018
  47. ^ Judge, Mark (2010). A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock 'n' Roll. Doubleday Religion. ISBN 978-0385519205.
  48. ^ a b Reinsch, Richard M. (October 27, 2010), "Loves lost past", The Daily Caller, retrieved September 19, 2018
  49. ^ a b c Kenefick, Matthew (January 2011), "A Review of A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock 'n' Roll", First Things, retrieved September 19, 2018
  50. ^ Atkinson, Khorri (September 18, 2018), "Mark Judge says he has 'no memory' of alleged sexual assault", Axios, retrieved September 19, 2018
  51. ^ Tatum, Sophie (September 19, 2018), "Mark Judge tells Senate he 'has no memory of alleged' incident with Kavanaugh", CNN, retrieved September 19, 2018
  52. ^ Beech, Eric (September 18, 2018), "Friend of U.S. high court nominee asks not to speak publicly on alleged assault", Reuters, retrieved September 19, 2018
  53. ^ Kilgore, Ed (September 18, 2018), "Meet Brett Kavanaugh's Alleged Accomplice, Mark Judge", New York Magazine, retrieved September 19, 2018
  54. ^ Blake, Aaron (September 18, 2018), "Lindsey Graham's bizarre defense of not making Mark Judge testify", The Washington Post, retrieved September 19, 2018
  55. ^ Kelly, Erin (September 18, 2018), "Brett Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge declines to testify about alleged sexual assault", USA Today, retrieved September 19, 2018
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  57. ^ "Aculture Et Cetera", The Washington Times, p. A2, February 22, 2000 – via NewsBank {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
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