Nicholas Kristof
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Nicholas Kristof is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist known for his impactful commentary on social justice and global issues. This interview reveals his commitment to fostering empathy and addressing systemic problems, highlighting his role as a catalyst for change in society.
“All told a quarter of the kids on my number six bus died from drugs, alcohol, suicide, related pathologies, and Farlan died of liver failure connected to drug and alcohol use. Zealand died in a house fire when he was passed out drunk. Regina died of hepatitis from needle use. Nathan blew himself up cooking meth.”
“Bobby Kennedy made these heroic efforts in the 60s to knit together the black working class and the white working class and create this common front. And for a while it might have worked.”
“David, I think there's a misperception in the U.S. among affluent Americans that these are tragic, but this is the inevitable consequences of automation, globalization. And it's not. It was the consequence of bad policy over 50 years in the US, and bad policy driven by a bad narrative that this is all about personal responsibility.”
“President Trump, and then what does he do? He rose access to health care. In Tightrobe, we talked to my old friend Mary Mayer, who. This dear old friend of mine, wonderful woman. She was homeless for seven years. At one point, she put a gun in her mouth to end it all.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 369 — Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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