He was then asked how he finds stories worth writing. “Tarana Burke, a wonderful activist, created that concept and was already getting traction around it a while back and it kind of got revived in the wake of my stories.” The phrase ‘Me Too’ goes back years,” Farrow said. There were great grassroots activists doing wonderful work on sexual violence going back years. In the discussion, Farrow disputed the notion that he was responsible for the #MeToo movement. The honors students in attendance read his best-selling book, “War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence,” as part of their course curriculum. Farrow’s reporting on the sexual misconduct cases of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, cited as one of the instigating factors of the #MeToo movement, helped earn him his Pulitzer.īefore delivering his speech, Farrow spoke with an intimate group of 30 students from WSU’s Honors Program and The Signpost. He was brought to WSU by the Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities in conjunction with the Women’s Center. After his work concluded with the federal government, Farrow began a new life as a journalist and author. He also worked for UNICEF for several years before joining the State Department under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Farrow came to Weber State University as a part of the ongoing “Browning Presents!” series.Ī graduate of Bard College and Yale Law School, Farrow is now a reporter for the New Yorker. Browning Center’s Austad Auditorium on Jan.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow spoke to a sold-out crowd at the Val A. Diplomacy, Farrow argues, has declined after decades of political cowardice, shortsightedness, and outright malice - but it may just offer America a way out of a world at war.JanuInvestigative journalist Ronan Farrow gives a speech and then a Q&A. Farrow's narrative is richly informed by interviews with whistle-blowers, policymakers, and a warlord, from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton. His firsthand experience in the State Department affords a personal look at some of the last standard-bearers of traditional statecraft, including Richard Holbrooke, who made peace in Bosnia and died while trying to do so in Afghanistan.

In an astonishing account ranging from Washington, DC, to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Korea in the years since 9/11, acclaimed journalist and former diplomat Ronan Farrow illuminates one of the most consequential and poorly understood changes in American history. We're becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later. Offices across the State Department sit empty while abroad, the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership.Īmerican diplomacy is under siege.

War on peace farrow