
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.
Morrow’s award-winning essays, appearing in Time, Smithsonian, The New York Times, The 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.
PUBLICATIONS
Return of the Notman
Published in City Journal on June 18, 2018
Two Washington Women
Published in City Journal on May 23, 2018
Profane Reality, Sacred Memory
Published in City Journal - Spring 2018 issue on May 22, 2018
Lost Souls
Published in City Journal on May 1, 2018
A Gift of Grace to the United States
Published in City Journal on April 2, 2018
The Age of Travesties
Published in City Journal on March 2, 2018
Time Runs Out
Published in City Journal on February 9, 2018
Man of the Centuries
Published in National Review Online on November 10, 2017
Ulysses Grant’s America and Ours
Published in National Review - November 13, 2017 issue on November 2, 2017
Church and State and the NFL
Published in National Review Online on October 10, 2017
When Universities Go Out of Control
Published in Minding the Campus on June 5, 2017