Esther Goldberg
WASHINGTON — As Ariel Castro, the convicted kidnapper, rapist, and baby killer, shuffled off in chains to the hoosegow, I thought why was there so little reportage or commentary about his idiotic statement made in an Ohio courtroom. Is it…
WASHINGTON — Last Sunday the New York Times released a picture of President Barack Obama giving an interview to its reporters in Galesburg, Illinois. Truth be told, he looked surprisingly gaunt. Not to put too sharp a point on it,…
WASHINGTON — The reaction to President Barack Obama’s highly personal speech last Friday, ostensibly on race but actually on himself, has been surprisingly subdued. Some would have thought he was going to tone down the rhetoric. Instead his rhetoric was…
WASHINGTON — The other day another pundit came to my side. I have been watching this steady trickle of sages joining the cause ever since the spring of 2012 when I pronounced, at book-length complete with footnotes, The Death of…
WASHINGTON — Dante Alighieri was the 13th century Florentine author whose Inferno apportioned his sinners’ suffering in Hell to their vices committed on earth with delightful affect. For instance, flatterers are mired in human excrement. Traitors are frozen in a…
LONDON—While preparing to travel to London this week, I missed a sad event, the death of Kenneth Minogue. Had not death caught up with him I doubtless would be calling him this week for one of our jovial meetings in…
WASHINGTON — I am immersed in research on the life of he who was called the Lion of the Senate, Edward M. Kennedy, known by one and all as Teddy. Readers of this column will be surprised to hear that…
WASHINGTON — For four decades the American people have been perplexed by “affirmative action,” “quotas,” and all the circumlocutions that have accumulated around them. Reading about them is painful. Living with them is worse. What has the Supreme Court trying…
WASHINGTON — Who is Gary Muthert? Well, he is the Internal Revenue Service officer in Cincinnati who gathered applications in 2010—presumably from the Tea Party and other conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status. He did it, he says, at the behest…
