Graydon Carter Quotes
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.
Topics
Intelligence
Animal Abuse
Animal Protection
Animal Rights
Empathy
Emotional Intelligence
Self-Awareness
Human Behavior
Animal Cruelty
Animal Exploitation
Animal Suffering
Animal Treatment
Animal Welfare
Conservation Efforts
Elephant Conservation
Human Greed
Human Traits
Moral Contrast
Social Intelligence
Species Extinction
Citations
Carter, Graydon. "Editor's Letter: The Ivory Trail." Vanity Fair, Condé Nast, Aug. 2011.
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Edward Graydon Carter, CM is a Canadian journalist who served as the editor of Vanity Fair from 1992 until 2017. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986. In 2019, it was announced he was launching a new weekly newsletter called Air Mail, which is for "worldly cosmopolitans."