Esther Goldberg
WASHINGTON — On the occasion of Lady Thatcher’s death there is widespread admiration and even applause for her premiership, but surely there ought to be gratitude too. After all, without her — and without President Ronald Reagan — the poor…
WASHINGTON — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City ought to know by now that gun owners do not trust him. The more he agitates against guns the more they dig in their heels. The more magnificoes he gets…
WASHINGTON — The American left cares so much for humanity that it even expends copious draughts of compassion toward us, toward you and me, toward suave, dégagé conservatives. The left’s members really fret over how elements of the “extreme right”…
WASHINGTON — Apparently New York City’s Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg whiles away his last hours in the mayor’s palace daydreaming. He has been mayor for almost three terms and though his mayorship may not have been as heroic or even…
WASHINGTON — When Senator Rand Paul took to the floor of the United States Senate the morning of March 6 he really — as they say — may have made a difference. It is a difference in our awareness of…
WASHINGTON — I do not know about you, but to me this sequestration imbroglio is getting interesting. Last week I wrote of my surprise that a basic untruth was being repeated over and over again by the White House, to…
WASHINGTON — I have long contended that public policy issues are as complicated as they appear because the giants of Capitol Hill like it that way, particularly the giants of the left. Bills can be written more simply. Decisions can…
WASHINGTON — I am indebted to Amity Shlaes for gently correcting a joke of mine that dates back to July 8, 1972. On that date in the New York Times I joshed that President Calvin Coolidge “probably spent more time…
WASHINGTON—It has happened again. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the New York Times Book Review, referred to by Paul Krugman the other day as “a long-time conservative,” has essayed in the New Republic the modern conservative movement, and traced us…
