Walter Isaacson

Isaacson, a former editor of TIME and a professor at Tulane University, is the author of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, to be published in March. After the Pfizer vaccine was approved, he opted to remain in the clinical trial and has not yet been “unblinded.”

Recent Articles

How mRNA Tech Gave Us the 1st COVID-19 Vaccines

The remarkable scientific discoveries behind the new COVID-19 Vaccines

By Walter Isaacson January 11, 2021

Walter Isaacson on How Book Editor Alice Mayhew Shaped Stories Like All the President's Men

Insiders' edition

By Walter Isaacson February 6, 2020

Walter Isaacson on How Cokie Roberts Came to Love American Politics

The voice of D.C.

By Walter Isaacson September 19, 2019

Remembering Leah Chase Who Transformed New Orleans and Its Food

She died on June 1 at age 96

By Walter Isaacson June 2, 2019

How America Risks Losing Its Innovation Edge

A version of this piece appears in a book published this month by the Aspen Strategy Group titled “Technology and National Security.” For the past fifty years, the rational exuberance of the American economy has...

January 3, 2019

How America Loses Its Edge

For the past 50 years, the rational exuberance of the American economy has been propelled by the combination of three innovations: the computer, the microchip and the Internet. The research and development that produced each...

By Walter Isaacson January 3, 2019

Why the Mississippi Remains the South’s Most Vital Artery

The Mississippi remains the South's most vital artery

By Walter Isaacson July 26, 2018

Remembering Ella Brennan, the Matriarch of New Orleans Cuisine

In her memoir of the culinary arts in New Orleans, Ella Brennan proclaimed, "I don't want a restaurant where a jazz band can't come marching through." At Commander's Palace, her vibrant stage for creole cuisine,...

By Walter Isaacson June 7, 2018

What Makes a Genius? The World's Greatest Minds Have One Thing in Common

Franklin, Einstein, Jobs, da Vinci. How history's greatest thinkers broke with tradition and solved problems nobody else could see.

By Walter Isaacson November 16, 2017

Time to Build a More Secure Internet

Yes, anonymity is empowering. But escalating hacks and scams show that we need a safer alternative

By Walter Isaacson January 8, 2015
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