Journalist and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Guest Speaker - Class of Fall 2022
Evan Osnos is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he served as the China correspondent from 2008 to 2013. Prior, he worked at the Chicago Tribune, where he was part of a team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. In 2014, Osnos was awarded the National Book Award for Age of Ambition. Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. His biography of Joe Biden, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now (2020), became an international bestseller. His latest book, Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury (2021), was a New York Times Best Seller. The German translations of his books are published by Suhrkamp Verlag.
Oct
25
2022
Mercedes-Benz Foreign Policy Forum
Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
Osnos returns to the United States in search of an explanation for the crisis that reached a crescendo in 2020, a year of pandemic, civil unrest, and political turmoil.
Oct
25
2022
Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
While living abroad for over a decade, New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos often found himself making a case for America, urging citizens of Egypt, Iraq, or China to trust that even though America had made grave mistakes throughout its history, it aspired to some foundational commitments: the rule of ...