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===Later career: ''The Nation'', teaching=== In 1987, Schell was a fellow at the [[Harvard Institute of Politics]] at the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]], and in 2002 he served as a fellow at the Kennedy School's [[Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy]].<ref name="ShorensteinBio">{{cite web |year=2002 |title=Jonathan Schell |url=https://shorensteincenter.org/staff_bio/jonathan-schell/ |website=<!--Website name the same as publisher.--> |publisher=Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250120022646/https://shorensteincenter.org/staff_bio/jonathan-schell/ |archive-date=2025-01-20}}</ref> He was a visiting lecturer at [[Yale Law School]] in 2003, and a fellow at the [[Yale Center for the Study of Globalization]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jonathan Schell |url=http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/activities/schell_bio.html |website=<!--Website name the same as publisher.--> |publisher=Yale Center for the Study of Globalization |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228083105/http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/activities/schell_bio.html |archive-date=2014-12-28}}</ref> He taught at several other universities, including [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Emory University|Emory]], [[New York University]], [[The New School]], and [[Wesleyan University]].<ref name="SchellMemorialLecture">{{cite web |title=Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture Series |url=https://typemediacenter.org/prizes/fate-of-the-earth/ |website=<!--Website name the same as publisher.--> |publisher=Type Media Center |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240917055511/https://typemediacenter.org/prizes/fate-of-the-earth/ |archive-date=2024-09-17}}</ref> At the time of his death he was a visiting lecturer at [[Yale College]].<ref name="Bernstein2014" /> He was a columnist for ''[[Newsday]]'' from 1990 until 1996.<ref name="ShorensteinBio" /> From 1998 to his death in 2014, he was a senior fellow at [[Type Media Center|The Nation Institute]] and the peace and disarmament correspondent for ''[[The Nation]]'' magazine.<ref name="SchellMemorialLecture" /> In addition, he wrote for ''[[Tom Engelhardt|TomDispatch]]'', ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', and ''[[The Atlantic]]''.<ref name="ShorensteinBio" /><ref name="Queally2014">{{cite web |last1=Queally |first1=Jon |date=2014-03-26 |title=Progressives Mourn Passing of Author and Activist Jonathan Schell |url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/03/26/progressives-mourn-passing-author-and-activist-jonathan-schell <!--Former URL at http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/26-3--> |website=Common Dreams |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227055054/https://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/03/26/progressives-mourn-passing-author-and-activist-jonathan-schell |archive-date=2015-02-27}}</ref> In 2002 and 2003, Schell was a persistent critic of the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|invasion of Iraq]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schell |first1=Jonathan |date=2003-02-13 |title=The Case Against the War |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/case-against-war-0/ |url-access=limited |website=The Nation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305102806/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/case-against-war-0/ |archive-date=2020-03-05}}</ref> He later commented, "There doesn't seem to be a rush to find the people who were right about Iraq and install them in the mainstream media."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Reed |first1=Jebediah |date=January 10, 2007 |title=The Iraq Gamble |url=http://www.radaronline.com/features/2007/01/betting_on_iraq_8.php |website=[[Radar Online|Radar]] |at=Right but Poor: Jonathan Schell |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070114074936/http://www.radaronline.com/features/2007/01/betting_on_iraq_8.php |archive-date=2007-01-14}}</ref> Jonathan Schell died at age 70, on March 25, 2014, at his home in [[Brooklyn]], with a cancer caused by an underlying blood condition that may have been caused by [[Agent Orange]]. His last years were spent in research on climate change for an unwritten book he titled ''The Human Shadow.''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Engelhardt |first1=Tom |author-link1=Tom Engelhardt |date=March 30, 2014 |title=In Memoriam: Jonathan Schell (1943-2014) |url=https://tomdispatch.com/in-memoriam-jonathan-schell-1943-2014/ |website=TomDispatch.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240414103247/https://tomdispatch.com/in-memoriam-jonathan-schell-1943-2014/ |archive-date=2024-04-14}}</ref>
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