1. Howard Kurtz points out some of Walter Cronkite’s partisan and personal transgressions. The most trusted man in America slanted his news coverage to favor Democrats over Republicans and to take sides in intra-Democratic rivalries. Kurtz argues that these would be a big . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s start off soberly, even on a note of august regret. One of the things Thomas Jefferson and John Adams agreed upon was that the primary point of republican popular suffrage was to elect a natural aristocracy . The same hope and intention gets expressed, albeit in a more guardedly . . . . Continue Reading »
I live in Chardon, Ohio. On February 27, a local boy shot seven other kids, killing three and disabling one. You might all know about it because the news media descended on our town in a swarm and projected us everywhere. The whole community was affected, first by the shooting of . . . . Continue Reading »
Early voting started a couple of days ago in Texas, and it sure makes it easy to vote for a primary election dated for May 29. Given that I will be in Rome visiting relatives on that date, it is nice to know that I can still vote early in Texas. Should I say, “Only in America?” Not to be . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . . Continue Reading »
Kate’s wonderful maiden post was broad and deep and offered no easy answers. So I’ll take a shallow and narrowly political look at one aspect of her post. Kate writes of the New York Times, “the main worry of people quoted in the article. Older America will not accept . . . . Continue Reading »
That is, when considering foreign policy on the big threats, Islamism now, communism then. The policy of the former president, while hotly criticized in the campaign, is basically retained by his successor. So Troy Senik of Ricochet says was Bush’s own prescient view, which has become . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS by a traitor here. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s what Daniel Larison says at THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE. He’s not completely wrong: The claim about American’s capacity to project power is an empirical one, and it is informed by the experience of the last decade. Many, if not all, realists acknowledge that the U.S. is in . . . . Continue Reading »
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