his wife. The couple divorced in 2009, his wife citing multiple infidelities and an "explosive temper" as problems in the marriage. Peretz is the father of the director Jesse Peretz and the writer Evgenia Peretz. Peretz is a long-time friend, former teacher, and political supporter of former US Vice President Al Gore. Career After Peretz purchased the magazine in 1974, he allowed its then editor, Gilbert Harrison, to continue editing the magazine. Peretz had pledged to let him continue running the magazine for at least three years. But by 1975, Peretz, increasingly agitated at having his own articles rejected for publication—pointing out he had been pouring more and more money into the magazine to cover its losses—he fired Harrison. Much of the rest of the staff, including Walter Pincus, Stanley Karnow, and Doris Grumbach, were either fired or quit. They were largely replaced by recent Harvard graduates lacking journalistic experience. Peretz then named himself the magazine's new the editor, serving in that post until 1979. In 1980, the magazine endorsed the liberal Republican John B. Anderson, running as an independent, rather than the Democratic incumbent, Jimmy Carter. Over time, Peretz purged the magazine of other progressive editors and writers, as the magazine underwent a dramatic ideological transformation. As other editors were appointed, Peretz remained editor-in-chief until 2012. During Peretz's stewardship of The New Republic, the magazine generally maintained liberal and neoliberal positions on economic and social issues, while assuming correspondingly pro-Israel and neoconservative hawkish stances on foreign affairs. Journalist Robert Parry wrote of Peretz's tenure as owner of the magazine: "Though The New Republic still touts its reputation as 'liberal', that label has been essentially a cover for its real agenda: pushing a hawkish foreign policy agenda that included the Reagan administration’s slaughter of Central Americans in the 1980s, violent US interventions in Iraq, Syria and other Muslim countries for the past two decades, and Israel’s suppression of Palestinians forever." Regarding Israel, Peretz has said "Support for Israel is deep down, an expression of America's best view of itself." Alexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein have stated that Peretz said "I am in love with the state of Israel." In a December 27, 2012 article, "Martin Peretz: An Appreciation," Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick praised Peretz for his unshakable loyalty to Israel: "As a man of the Left, he has fought the fight for Israel and Jewish rights, increasingly alone for