 He is a lecturer and has appeared numerous times as a commentator on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and is a frequent guest of "The Young Turks", a streaming internet political talk show.In addition to "Newsweek", he has written for "The Washington Post", "Politico Magazine", "The New York Times Book Review", "The New York Review of Books", "Foreign Affairs", "Harper's", and "Washington Monthly".Hirsh was co-winner of the Overseas Press Club award for best magazine reporting from abroad in 2001 for "prescience in identifying the al Qaeda threat half a year before the September 11 attacks" and for "Newsweek"'s coverage of the war on terror, which also won a National Magazine Award.