SVWC Writers Speaking Out: July 25-31
By: SVWC
Photo Credit: Nils Ribi
Here’s what our SVWC alumni have been writing about this week:
David Brooks (SVWC 2011 & 2017) – “The Future of American Liberalism” The New York Times
Steve Coll (SVWC 2018) – “Is the Postal Service Being Manipulated to Help Get Trump Reelected?” The New Yorker
Geoff Dyer (SVWC 2020) – “Ranging across Texas” The TLS
Sheri Fink (SVWC 2015) – “‘You Do the Right Things and Still You Get It’” The New York Times
Annette Gordon-Reed (SVWC 2009) – “Must We Allow Symbols of Racism on Public Land?” Harvard Law Today
Thomas L. Friedman (SVWC 2018) – “If Our Masks Could Speak” The New York Times
Patrick Radden Keefe (SVWC 2020) – “The Power–and Responsibility–of True Crime Writing” CrimeReads.com
John Lewis (SVWC 2014) – “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” The New York Times
Helen Macdonald (SVWC 2017) – “The Mysterious Life of Birds Who Never Come Down” The New York Times Magazine
Isabel Wilkerson (SVWC 2011) – “Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently.” The New York Times
Fareed Zakaria (SVWC 2018) – “Trump never mastered management. That’s why his pandemic response has failed” The Washington Post