Esther Goldberg
What was a delegation of Indonesian dignitaries doing at Donald Trump’s press briefing last Thursday, September 3? The delegation included House Speaker Setya Novanto, Deputy Speaker Fadli Zon, and three other deputy speakers. Trump said they were there to join…
“El hombre no es conservador,” Jeb Bush told Miami reporters the other day. The man is not conservative. He was speaking about Donald Trump. It’s not that Jeb! has given up campaigning “joyfully. It’s that every day Trump attacks him…
Reince Priebus came to see Trump at his NYC offices today, after which Trump held a news briefing outside his building. The crowd seemed not to be able to get enough of him, and Trump obliged by taking more questions…
I had a fleeting moment of respect for Hillary Clinton’s despicable advisor, Sid (“Vicious”) Blumenthal, the other day when I read his description of John Boehner in one of the newly released Hillary emails. “He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and…
There is something in the air, folks. It has to do with the limits of political correctness. And also the limits of just plain correctness, the kind that would be acceptable to Miss Manners. First, there was Donald Trump’s description…
The rise of Donald Trump, which at the same time is a repudiation of a well-thinking and comfortable Republican establishment, represents a critical point of inflection in our understanding of the wellsprings of human action. Oddly enough, it’s best illuminated…
Thursday morning I prepared a lovely prune-based compote. My husband adores this dessert, but I wondered if I shouldn’t send it over to George Will’s house, as an act of mercy. For Will has never before seemed as constipated as…
Valerie Jarrett, who first put the screws to Hillary Clinton by leaking information about her e-mail problems, appears to be tightening them. The Wall Street Journal reports that the inspector general of the intelligence community has found that at least…
Dan Pfeiffer, long-time aid to Barack Obama, and his Senior Advisor for Strategy and Communication until joining CNN, told reporters at a Bloomberg Policy Breakfast last November that Obama needed a Democrat to win the 2016 to cement the “core…
The Washington Post recently ran a story that illuminated something about Millennials that had previously escaped me. Those who claim the mantel of “white privilege” are not expressing guilt, but superiority. A privilege is an advantage, and claiming it because…
