David Zweig (journalist)

David Zweig released two albums in the early 2000s, All Now With Wings and Keep Going,{{Cite web |title=David Zweig |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-zweig-mn0001389685#discography |website=All Music}} which were produced by Keith Cleversley.{{Cite news |last=Paine |first=Kelsey |date=December 3, 2009 |title=David Zweig: Artistic Overload |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/david-zweig-artistic-overload-266517/ |work=Billboard}}

Zweig is the author of three books. His novel "Swimming Inside the Sun" was notable for exploring the concept of depersonalization. He describes this perspective as follows: "Fiction Depersonalization Syndrome, a hypothesis that I have developed, posits that immersion in the Western world’s highly mediated environment ...leads to increased self-consciousness; the extreme endpoint of this phenomenon is depersonalization, a psychological disorder where one is literally watching oneself from afar, as if in a movie or a dream."{{Cite web |last=Patella-Rey |first=PJ |date=March 31, 2011 |title=TtW2011 Panel Spotlight: Poets and Scribes |url=https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/03/31/ttw2011-panel-spotlight-poets-and-scribes/ |website=The Society Pages}}

Zweig is best known for his articles regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, authoring a series of investigative pieces challenging contemporary responses to the pandemic, particularly school closures, and the enforcement of various interventions, including mask mandates in schools{{Cite news |last=Zweig |first=David |date=August 20, 2021 |title=The Science of Masking Kids at School Remains Uncertain |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-science-of-masking-kids-at-school-remains-uncertain.html |work=New York Magazine}} and the evidence supporting such mandates.{{Cite news |last=Zinberg |first=Joel |date=May 5, 2022 |title=Point: There’s No Evidence That Masks Work |url=https://cei.org/opeds_articles/point-theres-no-evidence-that-masks-work/ |work=Competitive Enterprise Institute}} His articles "The Science of Masking Kids in School Remains Uncertain,"{{Cite news |last=Zweig |first=David |date=August 20, 2021 |title=The Science of Masking Kids at School Remains Uncertain |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-science-of-masking-kids-at-school-remains-uncertain.html |work=New York Magazine - Intelligencer}} and "The CDC's Flawed Case for Wearing Masks in School"{{Cite news |last=Zweig |first=David |date=December 16, 2021 |title=The CDC’s Flawed Case for Wearing Masks in School |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky/621035/ |work=The Atlantic}} proved to be influential works for critics of mask mandates in schools.{{Cite news |last=Wulfsohn |first=Joseph A. |date=December 16, 2021 |title=The Atlantic calls out CDC's 'flawed case' for school masking: Its go-to study based on 'very shaky science' |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-atlantic-david-zweig-cdc-school-masking |work=Fox News}} Zweig was present at the Great Barrington Declaration.{{Cite web |date=March 13, 2023 |title=Our interview with David Zweig: Letting the evidence tell the story |url=https://restorechildhood.substack.com/p/david-zweig-interview |website=Restore Childhood}}

He testified as an expert witness before the United States House of Representatives Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Hearing “Back to School: Highlighting Best Practices For Safely Reopening School” on Wednesday, September 29, 2021,{{Cite web |last=Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education |date=September 29, 2021 |title=Back to School: Highlighting Best Practices for Safely Reopening Schools |url=https://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=407732 |website=Committee on Education and Workforce}} and at the House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic meeting on March 28, 2023.{{Cite web |last=House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic |date=March 28, 2023 |title=The Consequences of School Closures: Intended and Unintended |url=https://www.congress.gov/index.php/event/118th-congress/house-event/115586 |website=Congress.gov}}

• Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion (2015){{Cite web|url=http://online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-invisibles-by-david-zweig-1403476630|title=Book Review: 'Invisibles' by David Zweig|first=Stewart|last=Pinkerton|website=The Wall Street Journal}}"Invisibles". 2014. Kirkus Reviews 82 (11): 39. https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781591846345{{Cite web|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/117955/invisibles-david-zweig-power-anonymous-work|title=The Three Most Important Traits of People Who Make the World Work|via=The New Republic}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2014/06/17/invisible-anonymous-workers-fact-checkers|title=The ‘Invisible’ Workers Keeping Our World Running|date=June 17, 2014|website=www.wbur.org}}
• Swimming Inside the Sun (Second Guess Media, 2009)
• An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions (MIT Press, 2025) [https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/book-deals-june-2021-edition/ David Zweig’s An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions]. MIT Press. June 28, 2021. https://omny.fm/shows/bmaz-beamer/author-david-zweig-joins-brian-mazurowski

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• {{Official website|https://davidzweig.com/}}
• [https://www.silentlunch.net/ Silent Lunch, The David Zweig Newsletter | Substack]

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Category:21st-century American journalists