In her new book, New York Times investigative journalist Jodi Kantor has set her mind to helping young people find their life\u2019s work. What should they, or anyone else who feels lost and overwhelmed right now, do to get started?<\/p>\n
Early last year, the investigative journalist Jodi Kantor was asked to give the commencement address to students at Columbia University in New York. The place was in chaos \u2013 amid continuing pro-Palestinian protests students were expelled, or arrested and detained by immigration officials, while President Trump had ordered a $400m withdrawal of federal funding<\/a> (which was later reinstated as part of a settlement<\/a> with the administration). Kantor was \u201chorrified\u201d to see what had happened at Columbia \u2013 her alma mater, where she was sacked from her first journalism job at the student paper\u2013 \u201ca place and campus I loved, a place that stands for discussion and ideas and progress. I said: \u2018I\u2019ll do it if I can speak to the students first.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n She spoke to several. They didn\u2019t want to talk about Israel or Gaza, or Trump, or what was happening at the university and its implications for free speech. \u201cThey said: \u2018Our class, despite all of its political differences, is united in anxiety over one question. When everything feels so broken, how do we start? How do we find our life\u2019s work in this environment?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In her new book, New York Times investigative journalist Jodi Kantor has set her mind to helping young people find their life\u2019s work. What should they, or anyone else who feels lost and overwhelmed right now, do to get started? Early last year, the investigative journalist Jodi Kantor was asked to give the commencement address … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}