Nicholas Kristof's Last Column for the NYT

A Farewell to Readers, With Hope

 

By Nicholas Kristof 

Oct. 28, 2021

 

사진: 위 칼럼에서

 

한국에도 많은 팬이 있는 것으로 알고 있는 칼럼니스트

니콜라스 크리스토프가 오레곤주 지사로 출마하기 위해

뉴욕타임즈를 떠나면서 마지막으로 쓴 칼럼이다.

크리스코프 같은 사람이 지사가 되면 좋겠다.

 

아래는 크리스토프의 'Farewell' 칼럼에서:

 

"My life was transformed when I was 25 years old and nervously

walked into a job interview in the grand office of Abe Rosenthal,

the legendary and tempestuous editor of The New York Times.

At one point, I disagreed with him, so I waited for him to

explode and call security. Instead, he stuck out his hand and

offered me a job.

 

"We didn’t build the Interstate System of highways with bake

sales and volunteers. Rigorous public investment — based on

data as well as empathy — is needed to provide systemic

solutions to educational failure and poverty, just as it was to

create freeways.

 

"While I’m proud of the attention I gave to global atrocities,

it sickened me to return from humanitarian crises abroad and

find one at home. Every two weeks, we lose more Americans

from drugs, alcohol and suicide than in 20 years of war in

Iraq and Afghanistan — and that’s a pandemic that the media

hasn’t adequately covered and our leaders haven’t adequatel

addressed.

 

"I love journalism, but I also love my home state. I keep

thinking of Theodore Roosevelt’s dictum: 'It is not the critic

who counts, not the man who points out how the stron

man stumbles,' he said. 'The credit belongs to the man who

is actually in the arena.'"