William Murchison

“Liar,” “wacko,” “immoralist” — the reproaches Donald Trump endures, or rejoices in, are numberless. And let’s not forget “authoritarian,” an echo of leading political players stretching back to Julius Caesar. I highlight this particular reproach on account of the furor…

The basic meaning of the Bill Cosby verdict — as we hear and receive it — is that the female accusers of male boors and cads and abusers are finally getting “believed” and not just written off as hysterical. Ah….

I am not here today comparing “The Bushes” to any other political tribe or family extant or extinguished! That needs fully to be understood before I open my mouth wider. The highly publicized death and burial of the family’s matriarch…

Amid the political hoo-hah now engulfing us — special prosecutors, tell-all memoirs, calls for impeachment, Lord knows what else — the opportunity to salute Paul Ryan has a cleansing effect: like heavy-duty detergent following a food fight. The opportunity arises…

Mark Zuckerberg straightens out Congress this week on Communications in the Modern Era — or Congress straightens out Mark Zuckerberg. Or maybe both. Or maybe it doesn’t matter. Or matters barely. The point on which to keep the eye is…

I did mention Elvis once in a column, and in the ’90s I pointed to one Donald Trump as the TV star you’d least likely want sitting next to you at a dinner party. And yet the likelihood, back then,…

A door creaks — metaphorically, of course — and a metaphorical breeze slinks into the room. American foreign policy is beginning to change; possibly renewing itself after an unprepossessing time of small-beer actions interspersed with grand apologies for past actions….

On a single weekend in mid-March, the dictator of Russia was reaffirmed in his official estate with 76.77 percent of the vote — after an election characterized by international observers as “overly controlled” — and the dictator of China was…

“Ya, ya, ya — you prude!” I see it coming my way. Who cares? “Ya, ya, ya,” right back at you, buster. Preliminaries out of the way, let’s get down to cases. No journalistic highdome of the Mencken variety is…