Dag Herbjørnsrud (born 11 January 1971) is a Norwegian historian and journalist. He has been editor-in-chief of the Norwegian weekly left-wing periodical Ny Tid since 1 February 2008.[1][2]
He is the son of writer Hans Herbjørnsrud and historian Anna Tranberg. In 1991–94, Dag Herbjørnsrud studied political science at the University of Oslo.[3] He graduated as cand. philol. in 2002 with an English language thesis on the later philosophy of Robert Nozick titled Leaving Libertarianism: Social Ties in Robert Nozick's New Philosophy.[4] In the thesis, Herbjørnsrud argued that Nozick left Libertarianism in his later years.[4] In a 2005 interview with the Norwegian liberal-conservative periodical Minerva, Herbjørnsrud stated that Nozick advocated the welfare state, and that Anarchy, State, and Utopia is not representative for Nozick's writings.[5]
He is a former political columnist for Al-Jazeera's English website and former journalist and commentator in the newspapers Morgenbladet (1993-1995) and Aftenposten (1995-2005).[1][6]
In cooperation with Stian Bromark he has written three non-fiction books in Norwegian:[7]
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