Popular journalist and author, Dwight Macdonald was best known for his well-written and often astringent social commentary. A graduate of Yale University, Macdonald founded his own journal, Politics , which published from 1944-49. He later wrote for The New Yorker  and was the film critic for Esquire . He is the author of Against  the American Grain  (1963), The Ghost of Conspiracy  (1965), a critique of the Warren Commission, and Discriminations  (1974),a collection of political and literary essays.