"Speaking to the subject is the most overrated……" — David Remnick
"Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,"
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What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle…
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Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population…
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The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
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A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and…
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Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.
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I actually have great hopes for the future.
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Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
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I have to always remember, writing is really hard.
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I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
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I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and…
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Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
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I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a…
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