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The Suburban Newspaper
April 25, 2018
The film is based on the book by Pulitzer winning author and journalist Ron Suskind about his family's journey with autism. Suskind was in attendance. He gave a brief introduction before the show, answered questions afterwards and then did a book signing. It was a remarkable evening, with a very uniqueÃÂ ...
The American Conservative
April 24, 2018
America's way of acting in the world, the violence it often does to the truth while asserting its will, cannot be explained simply through its alleged “interests.” The U.S. acts the way it does because of the peculiar American way of understanding what gives life and action meaning. At the core of the AmericanÃÂ ...
The Republic
April 22, 2018
7. “Mapping Indiana: Five Centuries of Treasures…,” Erin Kirchhoff, Eric Mundell & Amy Vedra (H). 8. “The Freshman Survival Guide: Soulful Advice for Studying, Socializing…,” Nora Bradbury-Haehl (P). 9. “Life Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism,” Ron Suskind (P). 10. “I've Been Thinking …
Globalnews.ca
April 20, 2018
Owen's father and the author, Ron Suskind, was there. He says Owen stopped speaking when he was three years old. He was diagnosed with regressive autism. For four years, his parents couldn't communicate with him. It was as if their little boy was gone. “Here's this loved one that's right in front of you butÃÂ ...
Cuestonian.com
April 12, 2018
At one point his father, Ron Suskind, overheard his son talking to a stuffed parrot named Iago, from the movie Aladdin. Ron crawled under Owen's bed and imitates the parrot in order to talk to his son for the first time in several years. When he asked Owen how he was doing Owen replied, “I'm not happy,ÃÂ ...
REVUE
April 11, 2018
The three lecturers for the season are Ron Suskind, Nontombi Naomi Tutu and Joy-Ann Reid, who all offer up stories of different life experiences. Similar to the 2017-2018 season, the Wharton Center will offer two Sensory-Friendly performances for those that experience sensory overload. It's part of theÃÂ ...
The State News
April 10, 2018
The highlights include appearances by comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short, a lecture from MSNBC correspondent Joy-Ann Reid and a performance from the Monterey Jazz Festival. Here is a list of the remaining events at the Wharton Center this season: Ron Suskind: Lecture — Oct. 1, 2018.
REVUE
April 10, 2018
The three lecturers for the season are Ron Suskind, Nontombi Naomi Tutu and Joy-Ann Reid, who all offer up stories of different life experiences. Similar to the 2017-2018 season, the Wharton Center will offer two Sensory-Friendly performances for those that experience sensory overload. It's part of theÃÂ ...
The Suburban Newspaper (blog)
April 10, 2018
He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. His company, Sidekicks, is leading efforts to build a next generation of augmentative technologies to lift and support “differently-abled” communities. My Chat with Ron Suskind. Last weekend I jumped on YouTube and learned a lot more about Suskind, hisÃÂ ...
Yale Daily News (blog)
April 9, 2018
Last year, the Builders of Hope Breakfast featured writer Ron Suskind, who talked about using Disney movie characters to help his son, who has autism, break through the communication barrier. In the past, keynote speakers have also addressed issues beyond developmental disability. Previous keynoteÃÂ ...
New Haven Register
April 1, 2018
Last year, journalist and “Life, Animated” author Ron Suskind spoke at the breakfast about his journey to communicate with his autistic son. The center is focusing on autism again this year because the clinic recently opened a center in Hamden for children and adults living with intellectual disabilities,ÃÂ ...
The Heights
March 18, 2018
Richardson just wrapped up an NPR podcast series she started in December 2017 with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Ron Suskind, called Freak Out and Carry On. On it, the duo analyzed the Trump presidency through a academic historical lense, branching out beyond the archetypical American story.
Cuestonian
March 7, 2018
Cuesta College will honor “Life Animated” by Ron Suskind as 2018's Book of the Year. Suskind wrote the book about his son Owen who was diagnosed with autism at age three. The story revolves around the family's use of Disney movies that Owen had loved before he was diagnosed to help him cope withÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
January 18, 2018
When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife found out their son had autism, they were crushed by the fear that they couldn't communicate. But they began to realize that he was learning to tell stories through Disney movies. The realization made Suskind ask, who decides what makes life truly meaningfulÃÂ ...
bestofneworleans.com
January 5, 2018
Edward Snowden in conversation with Ron Suskind at Tulane Jan. 29. Posted By ... National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden will discuss the state of surveillance in the U.S. with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Ron Suskind via a Google Hangout session at Tulane University this month.
Allentown Morning Call
October 19, 2017
KidsPeace will host Ron Suskind, right, author of 'Life, Animated' on Nov. 5 at ArtsQuest. Suskind is with his wife, Cornelia, son Walter (top) and son Owen, the subject of the book who has autism and learned how to relate to the world through Disney movies. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times).
Ithaca College
September 18, 2017
This year's Park Distinguished Visitor is Ron Suskind, a Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling author. Suskind's keynote speech will take place at Ithaca College on Sept. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Emerson Suites. A screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Life Animated,” based on his memoir by theÃÂ ...
Globalnews.ca
December 31, 1999
Owen's father and the author, Ron Suskind, was there. He says Owen stopped speaking when he was three years old. He was diagnosed with regressive autism. For four years, his parents couldn't communicate with him. It was as if their little boy was gone. “Here's this loved one that's right in front of you butÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
During Bush's very first national security council meeting (within days after his inauguration) Iraq was targeted, as Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill later recounted to Ron Suskind. By December 2001, I began seeing emergency supplemental budget requests from DOD that supported a huge troop buildup inÃÂ ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
February 10, 2018
Buddy Roemer; Richard Painter, co-chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington; Fox News Channel personality Steve Hilton; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind; former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner,;Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig; and Common CauseÃÂ ...
WBUR
February 1, 2018
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Olivier Knox, chief Washington Correspondent for Yahoo! News. They discuss President Trump's first State of the Union speech and compare it to those of Presidents Richard Nixon, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
News from Tulane
January 30, 2018
The live discussion was conducted via video chat by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind, who appeared in person at McAlister Auditorium and described Snowden as “an extraordinary actor on the global stage.” The event was sponsored by Tulane University Campus Programming.
The Advocate
January 29, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning political journalist Ron Suskind turns the camera on the computer on the crowd which is giving a standing ovation so that National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden in Russia can see at the end of a live conversation over the internet at Tulane University's McAlisterÃÂ ...
WBUR
January 25, 2018
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Katrina vandel Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation. They discuss the rising new progressive movement in America, resisting President Trump and the day that changed Theodore Roosevelt's life in 1884.
WBUR
January 18, 2018
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Tom Gjelten, who covers religion and immigration for NPR. They discuss President Trump's ideas about immigration, and how they fit into the long debate over which people are allowed to come to America.
PBS NewsHour
January 18, 2018
When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife found out their son had autism, they were crushed by the fear that they couldn't communicate. But they began to realize that he was learning to tell stories through Disney movies. The realization made Suskind ask, who decides what makes life truly meaningfulÃÂ ...
WCSH-TV
December 30, 2017
(NEWS CENTER) - But first: when Ron Suskind's son Owen was a toddler in the early 1990s, he was like other kids. ... As Ron Suskind told Rob, the turning point in the story came when, for the first time in years, Owen had a conversation with his father -- one in which they both spoke as characters from aÃÂ ...
The Reporter
December 29, 2017
The Souderton-based agency's programs include ones for housing and education, along with a food pantry. • In October, Ron Suskind, author of “Life Animated,” was the keynote speaker at Penn Foundation's annual Autumn Event. This year's Adventures in Excellence Award went to the Steven, Charlotte,ÃÂ ...
WLBZ-TV
December 29, 2017
Ron Suskind tells his son's story in his book “Life, Animated,” an account of how, after four years behind a wall of silence, Owen finally began communicating with his parents when he and they conversed as characters from Disney animated movies. The breakthrough came when Owen spoke like Jafar inÃÂ ...
The Real News Network
December 27, 2017
The name "Reality Asserts Itself" came to me after reading a 2004 article appearing in the New York Times Magazine by Ron Suskind. He describes a conversation with an unnamed official in the George W. Bush administration before the Iraq war. Suskind wrote, "The aide said that guys like me," meaningÃÂ ...
WBUR
December 21, 2017
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Amy Siskind, President of The New Agenda and author of The Weekly List. They look back on President Trump's first year in office, from his "American carnage" inaugural speech to the ongoing Mueller investigation,ÃÂ ...
WBUR
December 14, 2017
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of "White Rage", and Jack Hitt, host of the podcast "Uncivil" and long-time This American Life contributor. They react to DougÃÂ ...
WBUR
December 7, 2017
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Jim Tankersley, tax and economics reporter at the New York Times. They discuss the House and Senate versions of the Republican tax bills, the impact the proposed reforms will have on our economy, and how it willÃÂ ...
War Is Boring
December 4, 2017
Paul H. O'Neill, Bush's secretary of the treasury until his dismissal in December 2002, was the subject of Ron Suskind's book The Price of Loyalty. Highly-critical of the administration, O'Neill asserted that attacking Iraq was considered a top priority during the early days of the 43rd presidency and had evenÃÂ ...
WBUR
December 31, 1999
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of Lawfare and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Jonathan Rauch, a contributing editor at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Together they wroteÃÂ ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
December 31, 1999
“Journalists are used to being hated, but we're in a totally different place now,” Ron Suskind told the audience at the “Unrig the System Summit” in New Orleans on Feb. 2. Suskind, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, was referring to the bashing the media has taken from President Donald Trump over theÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
Prosecutors say that he phoned Benazir Bhutto in Washington on 25 September, three weeks before she ended eight years in self-imposed exile. Long-serving Bhutto aide Mark Seighal and journalist Ron Suskind both say they were with Bhutto when the call came in. According to Seighal, immediatelyÃÂ ...
Montgomery Newspapers
December 31, 1999
In October, Ron Suskind, author of “Life Animated,” was the keynote speaker at Penn Foundation's annual Autumn Event. This year's Adventures in Excellence Award went to the Steven, Charlotte, Colin, Ian and Lily Hunsberger family. The Vernon H. Kratz, MD Penn Foundation Service Award went toÃÂ ...
The Real News Network
December 31, 1999
The name "Reality Asserts Itself" came to me after reading a 2004 article appearing in the New York Times Magazine by Ron Suskind. He describes a conversation with an unnamed official in the George W. Bush administration before the Iraq war. Suskind wrote, "The aide said that guys like me," meaningÃÂ ...
War Is Boring
December 4, 2017
Paul H. O'Neill, Bush's secretary of the treasury until his dismissal in December 2002, was the subject of Ron Suskind's book The Price of Loyalty. Highly-critical of the administration, O'Neill asserted that attacking Iraq was considered a top priority during the early days of the 43rd presidency and had even ...
WBUR
December 1, 2017
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Brian Klaas, fellow at the London School of Economics and author of "The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy." They discussed recent news in the Mueller investigation, including the possible ...
Reno News & Review
November 30, 2017
This was reminiscent of a Ron Suskind story in The New York Times magazine more than a decade ago in which the phrase “reality-based community” was used by an aide in the George W. Bush administration. The term was a phrase used to denigrate a critic of the administration's policies. In it, Suskind ...
WBUR
November 22, 2017
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Andrew Rudalevige, Professor of Government at ...
WBUR
November 16, 2017
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Alicia Bannon, senior counsel at the Democracy ...
WBUR
November 9, 2017
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Ellen Fitzpatrick, professor of history at the ...
WBUR
November 2, 2017
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for ...
WBUR
October 26, 2017
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, recorded live in front of an audience at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ron Suskind ...
Montgomery Newspapers
October 22, 2017
Autumn Event continued with an inspiring presentation by Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, who candidly ...
WBUR
October 19, 2017
This week on Freak Out And Carry On, Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson talk with Barbara Perry, Director of Presidential Studies at ...
Allentown Morning Call
October 19, 2017
KidsPeace will host Ron Suskind, far right, author and star of 'Life, Animated' on Nov. 5 at ArtsQuest. Suskind will speak about his new app, ...
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