Jacob Weisberg is the editor in chief of Slate. He previously worked for The New Republic and was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and a columnist for the Financial Times. Weisberg is the inventor of the ?Bushisms? series. He is also the author, with Robert Rubin, of In an Uncertain World. Weisberg's first book, In Defense of Government, was published in 1996.