Max Lerner
Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner was an American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column. Lerner earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1923. He studied law there, but transferred to Washington University in St. Louis for an M.A. in 1925. He earned a doctorate from the Brookings Institution in 1927.
After completing his education Lerner found employment as both an educator and as a journalist. He began work as an editor, first for the Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences from 1927 until 1932, then The Nation from 1936 until 1938 and PM from 1943 until 1948. During these years Lerner taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Wellesley Summer Institute, Harvard University, and Williams College. In 1949 Lerner started writing a column for the New York Post, which he wrote until just before his death in 1992.
“We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.”
“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.”
“To create what it does, Hollywood has to draw young people, often of unstable temperment, from all over the world. It plunges them into exacting work---surrounds them with a sensuous life-- and cuts them off from the normal sources of living".”
“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”
“What counted was not the facts but the fears.”
“Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.”
“Every man has two counties--his own and America.”
“When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.”