SVWC Writers Speaking Out: June 6-12
By: SVWC
Photo Credit: Nils Ribi
Here’s what our SVWC alumni have been writing about this week:
Kwame Anthony Appiah (SVWC 2019) – “Is It Okay to Dump Him Because of His Medical Condition?” The New York Times Magazine
Jeffrey Brown (SVWC 2013-2019) – “What the Pandemic Means for a Film Industry in a ‘State of Paralysis’” PBS NewsHour
Jeffrey Brown (SVWC 2013-2019) – “Landscape Designer Piet Oudolf on Finding Solace in the Garden” PBS NewsHour
William D. Cohan (SVWC 2015) – “What’s Behind the Bad-News Market Boom” Vanity Fair
E. L. Doctorow (SVWC 2000) – “A Master Storyteller’s Advice for Graduates: ‘Be Brave. Be Kind.’” The New York Times
Sheri Fink (SVWC 2015) – “Connecticut Hospitals Ordered to Allow Visitors for Patients with Disabilities” The New York Times
Thomas L. Friedman (SVWC 2018) – “Let’s Change Our Motto to ‘Out of Many, We’” The New York Times
Robert Gates (SVWC 2015) – “Former Defense Secretary Gates: Pushing Away Peaceful Protesters Was ‘A Bad Mistake’” NPR
Adam Hochschild (SVWC 2000-2001, 2017) “The Fight to Decolonize the Museum” The Atlantic
Mark Leibovitch (SVWC 2019) – “An Eyesore Becomes an Icon” The New York Times
John Lewis (SVWC 2014) – “John Lewis to Black Lives Matter Protestors: ‘Give Until You Cannot Give Any More’” The Washington Post
John Lewis (SVWC 2014) – “John Lewis, Congressman and Civil-Rights Legend, Will Never Lose Hope” New York Magazine
Larry Mantle (SVWC 2003-2004) – “Is Affirmative Action Coming Back in California?” NPR
Jane Mayer (SVWC 2017) – “Ivanka Trump and Charles Koch Fuel a Cancel-Culture Clash at Wichita State” The New Yorker
David Miliband (SVWC 2016) – “David Miliband Issues Coronavirus Call to Arms” The Financial Times
Siddhartha Mukherjee (SVWC 2011) – “Can a Vaccine for Covid-19 be Developed in Record Time?” The New York Times Magazine
Jeffrey Toobin (SVWC 2017) – “The Georgia Primary and the State of Voting Rights” The New Yorker
Fareed Zakaria (SVWC 2018) – “If New York City Founders, It’ll Be Because of Bad Government, Not the Pandemic” The Washington Post