James F. Hoge Jr.

in political science in 1958, Hoge began his journalistic career with the Chicago Sun-Times; during this period, he received an M.A.

In 1980, he attended the six-week Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program, and relinquished his editorial duties, continuing as the newspaper's publisher.

Following fellowships at the Harvard Institute of Politics (1991) and the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1992), he was appointed editor of Foreign Affairs in 1992, replacing William G. Hyland.

Under his editorship Foreign Affairs became a rare instance of an academic journal that turned a profit, earning several hundred thousand dollars, per year.

[7] James F. Hoge Jr. died at Weill Cornell Medical Center on September 19, 2023, at the age of 87, just under a month after his brother.