Peretz, who left his position as a House Master at Harvard after taking over as editor-in-chief in 1975, said that he will not retain any ownership in the company but will likely write for the magazine.
“I’ve done the magazine for 38 years, and I’m going to do what [Hughes] wants me to do,” Peretz said. “I’m now almost 73, so it’s a good time. It’s probably too late, even, to have done this.”
Peretz—one of the early head tutors of the social studies concentration—came under fire at Harvard in 2010 after writing a controversial blog post for The New Republic which included the statement “Muslim life is cheap.”
Protest by five student groups led to Peretz’s removal from the list of speakers at the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies’ 50th anniversary celebration.
Hughes could not be reached for comment.
—Staff writer Nicholas P. Fandos can be reached at nicholasfandos@college.harvard.edu.