American public life is anti-intellectual as hell. Advice to John Kerry: don’t think in public.
Category Archives: U. S. Politics
On democracy as entertainment, plus serious things.
A review of two speeches in which national news executives express to their colleagues why paid political diatribes are becoming a threat to their traditional journalism.
What is to be learned from the California recall and Arnold Schwarzenegger? New Mexico has already been through it. The story does not end with the election.
The maker of “The Thin Blue Line” and other artful documentary films interviewed Robert S. McNamara for 20 hours and came up with. . . the 20th Century, personified.
Something is wrong with a health system that forces monks who dedicate lives to service and devotion to beg for donations and depend upon politically-influenced indigency funds to pay for medical care.
There was no firepower in China’s Warring States period. The “shock and awe” attributed to Sun Tzu’s classic, “The Art of War,” is about deception, surprise, and the use of unexpected and unconventional small forces. Is Saddam about to be surprised?