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Laurence Pevsner
Laurence is an inaugural Moynihan Public Scholar at the City College of New York. He previously served as Director of Speechwriting for the U.S. Ambassador to the UN and as a speechwriter for West Wing Writers. He’s working on a non-fiction book about public apologies and a novel about buried treasure.
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June 27, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Why Boeing Being Serially Sorry Doesn’t Fly
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June 3, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: The Pope’s Contradictory Apology
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May 13, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Why Did Two Grandmasters Apologize to Each Other?
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April 25, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Mike Tyson, Marijuana Morsels, and the Difference Between Justice and Forgiveness
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April 10, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Stephen Colbert Found His Own Line with Kate Middleton
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March 25, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Why Apologies Aren’t Miracles
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March 11, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Three Comedians, Three “Apologies”
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February 16, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: How Bill Clinton Turbocharged the Apology Treadmill
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February 2, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Why Donald Trump Never Apologizes
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January 18, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: A Eulogy for the Notes App Apology
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October 11, 2019If I Made Up My New Canadian Girlfriend, Then Where Did I Get All This Free Healthcare?
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July 15, 2024I Can’t Believe Such a Hateful, Violent Act Could Happen in the Hateful, Violent Era I’ve Created
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July 12, 2024Schedule of Speakers for the 2024 Republican National Convention
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July 16, 2024Hillbilly Elegy Edited for J. D. Vance’s Vice Presidential Campaign
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May 10, 2024What Your Favorite ’90s Band Says About the Kind of Bored Suburban Mom You Are Today
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