Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Lance Morrow. He's the Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He's a contributing editor of City Journal and was also, for many years, an essay to Time magazine, where he wrote more of the Man of the Year articles for that publication

than any other writer.

He won the 1981 National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and was a finalist for

the same award in 1991.

His books include America, or Rediscovery, Evil and Investigation, and more recently recently God and Mammon, Chronicles of American Money.

His brand new book, however, is called The Noise of Typewriters, Remembering Journalism.

That subtitle can be read in a couple of ways, of course, in a time when many are proclaiming

the death of journalism, or at least of objective

news reporting, remembering journalism promises to look back to an era when certain things

could be taken for granted.

But remembering journalism also describes a memoir of sorts, of Lance Morrow's long career

at time, of a lost world of manual typewriters and news tickers, and of sorts, of Lance Morrow's long career at time, of a lost world of manual typewriters and

news tickers, and of the power, both a journalistic and myth-making power of time, and its founder

and mastermind Henry Luce, a man whom Lance never met, but whose presence looms large in this

new book, which will be out later this month in February.

So Lance Morrow, thanks very much for joining us.

Thank you, Brian.

Great to be here.

So let's start with this legendary figure loose and with time, a venerable publication.

You have much to say about both of these things in this book,

but let's start with some of your observations about Luce. You note that people have forgotten,

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