Jan 30, 2022Jonathan Friedland — Kast and Cant in ChileBack in the mid-1990s as a Wall Street Journal correspondent, I visited Tucuman, an Argentine backwater, that had recently elected as its governor a former general who a decade earlier, as military governor, had overseen the imprisonment, torture and murder of his own people. His name was Domingo Bussi and…Jonathan Friedland2 min readJonathan Friedland2 min read
Jan 30, 2022Jonathan Friedland — Planting Trees is Great; Protecting Trees is Even BetterI really love trees. I mean, who doesn’t. I’m also really concerned about how we can keep enough of them in the right places. Here in California, we have lost Rhode Island-sized forests to fire in the last couple of years. …Jonathan Friedland2 min readJonathan Friedland2 min read
Jan 30, 2022Jonathan Friedland — Enron’s Malign Spirit Lives On in New GuisesOne of the biggest stories I ever was in charge of at the WSJ was the collapse of Enron, a Houston-based energy trader that flamed out spectacularly in October 2001. My former colleagues John Emshwiller and Rebecca Smith are doing a podcast for the Journal called Bad Bets that has…Jonathan Friedland2 min readJonathan Friedland2 min read
Jan 30, 2022Jonathan Friedland — The Value and Power of Great JournalismTwenty years ago on September 11, I woke up to a frantic phone call from a colleague telling me a plane had hit the World Trade Center in Manhattan. I turned on CNN to watch the horror first-hand, gingerly shunting my then- three-year-old son from the room. At the time…Wall Street Journal2 min readWall Street Journal2 min read
Jan 30, 2022Jonathan Friedland — The Wisdom That Comes From HindsightFor a long time, I haven’t written for the public. But it’s time both to exercise my pen and exorcise a few frustrations. The prompt? The anniversaries of two events 20 years ago and how those events ended up shaping the world, not always in expected ways. A bit about…Jonathan Friedland2 min readJonathan Friedland2 min read