Walter Isaacson, the president of the Aspen Institute, is the former managing editor of Time and chairman of CNN and the author of biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. His Einstein biography is available here.

Blog Entries by Walter Isaacson

A Bold, Old Idea for Saving Journalism

21 Comments | Posted February 5, 2009 | 03:22 PM (EST)


The crisis in journalism has, during the past few months, reached meltdown proportions. It is now possible to contemplate a time in the near future when major towns will no longer have a newspaper and when magazines and network news operations will employ no more than a handful of reporters.

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The Woman Who Shed Her Burqa

Posted February 12, 2008 | 01:55 PM (EST)


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As someone who knew and respected Benazir Bhutto ever since we were in college together, I cannot write an unbiased review of her new book, Reconciliation. But because I feel that it is an extraordinarily important and beautiful...

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Tenet's Instinct to Please

Posted April 30, 2007 | 12:53 PM (EST)


As I was reading the excerpts and reports of George Tenet's new book, I was reminded of a dinner I went to recently where I got to listen to Václav Havel, the playwright, former Czech president, prisoner, and human rights activist. He said that there were two types of people...

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