14 Time December 23–30, 2019
- ‘If, instead of all the unsolicited advice, faux concern
and nosy questions I fielded in my 30s, I could
have read this @ szacharek essay, it would have been
a real gift.’
REBECCA KEEGAN, Hollywood Reporter editor, on Stephanie
Zacharek’s Jan. 14 essay “Why I’m Glad I Didn’t Have Kids,”
part of a series on fertility - ‘I have deleted my Facebook account. The benefit
was hardly worth the burden of the loss of my privacy.’
TROY ANDERSON, Reno, Nev., on the Jan. 28 story about
Facebook by one of its early investors, Roger McNamee - ‘I will pass this copy to my grandchildren. There are
lessons to be learned.’
BARBARA COLLETT, Gainesville, Fla., on Haley Sweetland
Edwards’ Feb. 4–11 special report on global migration - ‘So happy to be able to just show my friends an article for
them to understand what “Tibet” is and what is happening
to us Tibetans.’
DORJEE LHAMO, Germany, on Charlie Campbell’s March
profile of the Dalai Lama - ‘TIME’s artist forgot to place a banana
peel under Trump’s foot.’
JAMES F. FRYER, Hayward, Calif., on Tim O’Brien’s cover
illustration for the April 8 story about special counsel Robert
Mueller’s report - ‘My daughter is presenting this article to her
5th grade class.’
@DARBYDOUG, on Twitter, about Sean Gregory’s June 3–
story on U.S. soccer star Alex Morgan and her team’s fight for
equal pay; they won the Women’s World Cup a month later - ‘The solutions will probably require changes in our culture
and society which will be uncomfortable for liberals and
conservatives alike.’
CHARLES BATTEAU, Glen Allen, Ga., on the Aug. 19 story
about the El Paso and Dayton shootings - ‘He wrote of my heavy burden.
I cried on my living room couch.’
GABRIELLE PRINCE, a 17-year-old leader of her school’s
Environmental Action Club in Lancaster, N.Y., on former
Vice President Al Gore’s essay encouraging youth activism, in
the Sept. 23 special issue on climate change - ‘Elites have never relinquished power, and they
never will.’
LEO KRUSACK, Harbert, Mich., on Anand Giridharadas’
Dec. 2–9 story arguing that elites are falling out of favor
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