The Reformer
Changing the system from inside it, principle turned into change.
Bethany McLean qualifies as The Reformer because her journalism refuses the comfort of scapegoats. She warns that pinning systemic failure on any single figure obscures the deeper rot, and her reporting, including The Big Fail, traces how entangled market ideology and governance failures compound inequality.
“Even as the pandemic wore on the communication about masking was not great, there was this for a long time we all believed that those terrible little paper and cloth masks that people wore protected us, and they don't, not really a better mask protects you more, and it wasn't until a long time into the pandemic that everybody was finally…”
“I think because it is beyond the human capacity to imagine that these things could actually happen. And I was thinking about this because I've said in the context of business disasters in the past that the old lesson from kindergarten, use your imagination, is one of the most important lessons you can possibly learn because if anybody eve…”
“I think Kushner, I don't think the task force that he set up to get PPE did that much. However, it's worth noting that some of the people running Warp Speed came away who were utterly opposed to Trump and to Trump's administration came away supportive of Kushner because they thought that it was Kushner's support that guaranteed warp speed…”
“How did that pass? But back to Fauciet, I think there are a couple of things that I don't understand why Fauci did them either. The mask thing, to say the least.”
Masters in Business: “Bethany McLean on the Pandemic's Big Fail”
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