Michael Judge

Journalist, Poet & Publisher of The First Person with Michael Judge; Opinion Editor, Japan Times; former WSJ Editor & Writer; and NYT, NPR, CJR contributor.

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

Thank you, Michael Ignatieff, for bringing attention to Sergey Maidukov‘s powerful and poignant essay. What we need to ask ourselves—as citizens of the world—is the same question that Maidukov asks himself: Has ordinary life begun to resemble a form of forgetting?

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

In "Habits of War," Sergey Maidukov makes us see the Russian-Ukraine anew, and feel the toll it takes on everyone's humanity. As he writes, "Ordinary life has begun to resemble a form of forgetting."
https://t.co/XLDXeKKa35

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

“Even in the good old days of Siddhartha or Epicurus,” writes philosopher and author Scott Samuelson, “the misplaced desire for more, more, more was regarded as the central problem of the time.” Read here:
https://t.co/fDCfNgNeoz

#philosophy #stoicism #maxxing

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

As @hrw Human Rights Watch’s deputy Asia director, Maya Wang has become one of the leading figures documenting #humanrights abuses in Asia. Read my interview with her for the Japan Times here: https://t.co/G7xr7Hupb1

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

Honored to publish this moving #essay on #war and lost childhood by the Ukrainian #writer @SergeyMaidukov. God bless and protect him and his granddaughter, Erica, and all the children of #Ukraine.
https://t.co/YLmOEBf0YP

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

So honored to publish this amazing essay by an amazing woman who has devoted her life to helping children and families in need. Megan Rose and her organization @BTogetherOrg are a ray of light in an often dark world.
https://t.co/kgEUGVeeC9

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

So honored to publish Christopher Merrill once again in TFP. As Roethke said of Char, he is my spiritual and aesthetic “older brother,” seeking truth, beauty, and justice always. 🙏
https://t.co/7SNC4zyjzW

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

So honored to publish Christopher Merrill once again in TFP. As Roethke said of Char, he is my spiritual and aesthetic “older brother,” seeking truth, beauty, and justice always. 🙏
https://t.co/7SNC4zyjzW

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

An ancient #poem perfectly suited for our modern times. #Ovid translated by the great Ted Hughes.

https://t.co/pr57lgPqPO

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

Scott Samuelson:
In the wake of “a whole civilization will die tonight,” I think back on my six-year-old self and my fears—irrational and otherwise.
https://t.co/qBpY0Q1n5K

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

During #NationalPoetryMonth my thoughts always turn to my amazing poetry teachers at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the beautiful man and gifted poet Marvin Bell especially, and his lovely wife Dorothy. Here’s a #poem of thanks honoring them both:
https://t.co/WoBShiMPAp

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

Ella Voloshen: Don’t Think Twice, Dylan's All Right, by @MJUDGE_TFP https://t.co/KS1ctNqSUA

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

Dear Son
https://t.co/9bcQcn1qUJ

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

As the #IranWar continues, I’m honored to publish this brilliant #essay by @mahsamohebali Mahsa Mohebali, the acclaimed #novelist and Iranian #writer in exile, on why “Bombs will not teach us how to hear one another.” https://t.co/BI82oI9bv8

https://t.co/BI82oI9bv8

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

Poem for a friend on the first day of the war: https://t.co/2U4Xxrhh9m
#poem #poetry #war #IranWar

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

Four years on and Russia continues to murder mothers like Victoria Amelina. When will the Russian people say enough?
https://t.co/ayOgu5BTZb

#StandWithUkraine #UkraineAnniversary #StopRussianAggression #SupportUkraine
#UkraineWar

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

Team USA's triumphs in Milan take me back to my youth and how I learned to play hockey—outside, when the mercury dropped:
https://t.co/TRUWEWXUON
#hockey #OlympicHockey #WinterOlympics #IceHockey #HockeyTwitter #IceHockey, #HockeyLife #PuckDrop #HockeyGame #HockeyHistoryRead

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

#Author, #philosophy professor, and longtime TFP contributor writing on #Confucious, #Orwell and the killing of #AlexPretti. Must read #essay on the bloody ICE shootings in #Minneapolis.
https://t.co/igJSQIT3bO
#IceOutNow #ReneeGood

[Michael Judge @MJUDGE_TFP]

“Planes no longer fly in Ukraine. Cars do not travel between Kyiv and Donetsk. My mother and I are separated not by a border, but by a front line,” writes @SMaidukov in this moving #essay on his family’s separation.
https://t.co/M9LKTXi5Xp

#StandWithUkraine #UkraineRussiaWar