Patrick Lawrence

Patrick Lawrence is an author, essayist, and lecturer. He has written for numerous publications, from the Guardian (US), the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Christian Science Monitor, Business Week, TIME magazine, The Washington Quarterly, the International Herald Tribune and the Far Eastern Economic Review. His foreign affairs and media commentary has appeared in a variety of publications such as Salon, CounterPunch, The Nation, Raritan, Consortium News, ScheerPost, Current Concerns, Horizons et débats, and Zeit–Fragen.

Lawrence has taught at universities in the U.S. and abroad and lectures widely. He has published five books including Japan: A Reinterpretation (Pantheon; NYT Notable Book, Overseas Press Club Award), Somebody Else’s Century: East and West in a Post–Western World (Pantheon), and Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century (Yale University Press).