Lance Morrow

Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow

Lance Morrow is the Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His work focuses on the moral and ethical dimensions of public events, including developments in regard to freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and political correctness on American campuses, with a view to the future consequences of such suppressions.

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Lance Morrow is the Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His work focuses on the moral and ethical dimensions of public events, including developments in regard to freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and political correctness on American campuses, with a view to the future consequences of such suppressions.

Morrow’s award-winning essays, appearing in TimeSmithsonianThe New York TimesThe Atlantic, and other publications, have offered probing analyses of American culture and politics in the transition from the 20th to the 21st century.

Morrow wrote about every presidential election from Nixon to Obama, wars from Vietnam to Bosnia to the Middle East. Morrow was the author of more than 150 cover stories for Time, including eight Man of the Year articles.

He is currently writing a book about Henry Luce and his magazines’ role in shaping American culture and opinions in the middle third of the 20th century. Morrow is a strong believer in the role of journalism in sustaining freedom and democracy.

The son of an editor of the old Saturday Evening Post and of a Washington columnist for the Knight syndicate, Morrow grew up in Washington. He attended Gonzaga High School, and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. For nine years (1996-2005), he was a University Professor at Boston University, where he taught presidential history and the art of the essay.

The author of seven books, Morrow is a two-time winner of the National Magazine Award—the first for his original coverage in essay form of American cultural affairs, the second for his essay that was part of Time‘s special coverage of September 11th.

Morrow’s study of the question of evil, arising among other things from his travel in the Bosnian war zone with Elie Wiesel, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award.  Later, he turned the article into a critically acclaimed book—Evil: An Investigation.

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The Noise of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism

Publication Date: February 28, 2023 From the publisher: W.H. Auden famously wrote: “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Journalism is a different…

 

God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money

Publication date: November 24, 2020 Publisher: Encounter Books From the publisher: Award-winning essayist Lance Morrow writes about the partnership of…

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Second Drafts of History: Essays

Publication date: January 2, 2006 Publisher: Basic Books From the publisher: In his forty years as a working journalist and…

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The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Nixon, and Johnson in 1948: Learning the Secrets…

Publication date: March 15, 2005Publisher: Basic Books From the publisher: In 1948, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon were…

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Evil: An Investigation

Publication date: August 18, 2003 Publisher: Basic Books From the publisher: Long couched only in theological terms, and popularly personified…

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Heart: A Memoir

Publication date: January 1, 1995 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing From the publisher: An award-winning essayist for Time magazine reflects on…

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America: A Rediscovery

Publication date: January 1, 1989 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company From the publisher: Looks at American cities, towns, wilderness areas,…

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Fishing in the Tiber: Essays

Publication date: January 1, 1988 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company From the publisher: This collection of essays, covering several decades…

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The Chief: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons

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