Perhaps you have noticed, as I have, the advance made upon Charles Krauthammer’s brilliant coinage of the last decade, "Bush Derangement Syndrome," by its latter-day equivalent of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It is that the illness now seems to afflict almost as many Republicans as it does Democrats. Just look at the most recent column by Bret…
Are the two sides of our polarized politics really living in "alternate realities" or does it only seem that way because of their hatred for each other? — From The New Criterion of March, 2018
In trying to modernize our understanding of this "elusive concept," a new book loses sight of its historical meaning — From The Weekly Standard of March 26, 2018
As a Second Amendment sort of guy, I worry that President Trump’s fundamental pragmatism has led him to abandon — or, at yesterday’s White House roundtable to think of abandoning — his fellow Republicans over gun-control in the face of the media-promoted moral blackmail by teenage survivors of the Valentine’s Day massacre at Parkland, Florida….
Donald Trump may or may not be crazy, but he is certainly driving the media crazy — From The New Criterion of February, 2018
An occasionally amusing parable of guilt and forgiveness whose setting in small-town America, like the prejudices of its author, does it no favors
Despite some stirring moments, and a fine performance from Gary Oldman, the movie gets its portrait of a war leader wrong
On the media’s cynical re-appraisal of the Bill Clinton sex scandals they once dismissed as unimportant — From The New Criterion of January, 2017
On the usefulness of the concept of "intersectionality" to produce scandal, or eliminate it, according to the media’s requirements — From The New Criterion of December, 2017
Misfits, morals, and bourgeois norms — From The Weekly Standard of December 4, 2017
A propos of the media’s on-going épuration légale of sexual malefactors in their midst, thoughtful articles in the mainstream media themselves are beginning to appear, like crocuses opening up in spring while still half buried in snow, which propose, or at least imply, that — in the words of one of them for the Washington…
