Philip Taubman is affiliated with the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. His newest book, McNamara At War: A New History (co-authored with his brother William Taubman), was published by W.W. Norton & Company on September 23rd, 2025. Before joining CISAC in 2008, Mr. Taubman worked at the New York Times as a reporter and editor for nearly 30 years, specializing in national security issues, including United States diplomacy, and intelligence and defense policy and operations. At the Times, Taubman served as a Washington correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, deputy editorial page editor, Washington bureau chief and associate editor. 

Before joining the New York Times, he worked as a correspondent for Time magazine and was sports editor of Esquire. He was a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees, 1978-1982, and served as secretary of the Stanford Board, 2011-2018. In addition to McNamara at War, he is author of Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage (Simon & Schuster, 2003), The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb (Harper Collins, 2012), and In The Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz, (Stanford University Press, 2023). Taubman was a history major at Stanford, Class of 1970, and served as editor-in-chief of the Stanford Daily in 1969.

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For information about William Taubman, co-author of McNamara At War, visit William Taubman's website here.