STEVE COLL on "Journalism in the Age of Trump" -- 7:30 PM, Friday, September 22, 2017, The Hotchkiss School
Steve Coll, Dean of Columbia Journalism School, Author of Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, and a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine. He is the author of seven books of nonfiction, and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Between 1985 and 2005, he was a reporter, foreign correspondent and senior editor at the Washington Post. He joined The New Yorker in 2006, where he has written on international politics, American politics and national security, intelligence controversies and the media.
“In order to preserve protect and defend the Constitution … you have to know it, and I don’t know how much he (Donald Trump) has actually thought about it,” Akhil Amar told an audience earlier this year. One of America's premier constitutional scholars Dr. Amar was discussing his new book The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of our Era. 
In his 25 year career producing documentaries for Frontline on PBS Martin Smith has reported from virtually all the hot spots. Few people know the politics, ethnic and religious complexities and impact of American actions better.