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.
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.
‘An Honest Conversation About Race’?
Lance Morrow
Is confrontation wise? Much progress has been accomplished under cover of hypocrisy—or civility.
Articles
The Wall Street Journal / July 3, 2020
Fire, Again
Lance Morrow
The current outbreak of protests and riots feels like a sudden, comprehensive event of physics or meteorology, a perfect storm of perfect storms, multilayered and interpenetrating and simultaneous.
Articles
City Journal / June 1, 2020
The Other Great War
Lance Morrow
Rudyard Kipling’s World War I-era book contains surreal and haunting similarities to today’s pandemic.
Articles
City Journal / May 23, 2020
Give Yourself a Haircut
Lance Morrow
It’s easier than you think. Now is the time to try, so turn up the lights and grab a sharp pair of scissors.
Articles
The Wall Street Journal / May 19, 2020
Coronavirus and ‘Vindication of God’
Lance Morrow
The pandemic raises the old question of theodicy, the core dilemma of faith.
Articles
The Wall Street Journal / April 30, 2020
The War Goes On
Lance Morrow
Americans are engaged in a great double struggle—against a pandemic, but also against one another.
Articles
City Journal / April 17, 2020
Biden-Cuomo Is the Way to Beat Trump
Lance Morrow
The former vice president promised a female running mate, but the world has changed since then.
Articles
The Wall Street Journal / April 12, 2020
Calamity Has Much to Teach
Lance Morrow
We live in history—and calamity has a lot to teach us. Some say that we learn only by suffering and disaster.
Articles
City Journal / March 27, 2020
What to Do When You’re Sheltering in Place
Lance Morrow
Set a routine and stick to it. Keep your body, clothes and home clean. Occupy your mind and have faith.
Articles
The Wall Street Journal / March 23, 2020
Biden in an Age of Amazements
Lance Morrow
The Truman-like resurrection of the presidential candidate would be startling, in normal times—but these aren’t normal times.
Articles
City Journal / March 4, 2020