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.


Citations

Carter, Graydon. "Editor's Letter: The Ivory Trail." Vanity Fair, Condé Nast, Aug. 2011.

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Graydon Carter
Graydon Carter
  • Born: July 14, 1949
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Magazine Editor

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."