Maybe I missed something in ghostwriting class, but I always thought the ghostwriter’s job was to remain as ghostly as possible. The book, I thought, should be the author’s — his or her life, thoughts, ideas, and, as far as…
Dear readers, I gave ChatGPT this prompt. My goal is for you to go through the piece and see if you find errors. Was the writing interesting and informative? The first thing I’ll note is that the AI is disobedient….
A week before Christmas, on the occasion of Alex Haley’s centennial year, Michael Patrick Hearn penned a lengthy tribute to his one-time Hamilton College prof. The first 4,000 words of the New York Times article Hearn fulfilled the promise of…
“We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst,” wrote C. S. Lewis, commenting in his book The Abolition of Man about propagandistic trends in education. These days public school educators laugh at patriotism and are not…
Donald Trump should eschew the example of the three most recent Democratic presidents in dealing with those who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol. The despicable actions Wednesday making the oldest republic resemble the latest banana republic deserve punishment and not…
Washington My deadline for this column was Tuesday afternoon, so obviously I could not report on Tuesday’s elections. I know, I know, the mainstream media already had their stories about Tuesday’s presidential election written weeks ago. It was a Biden…
Book contracts routinely include a “failure to perform” clause. Contracts that come with a reported $65 million advance, such as the one signed by Barack and Michelle Obama in February 2017 with Penguin Random House (PRH), will inevitably include such…
It was Friday, February 8, 2008. The place was CPAC, the annual gathering of conservatives in Washington. It was the night of the premiere event, the Ronald Reagan Banquet. The speaker earlier that evening had been George F. Will. This…
Leftist radical David Hogg generated some controversy when he complained to the press that “Older Democrats just won’t move the f—k off the plate and let [the young people] take control [of the DNC].” With that outburst, Hogg completed the cultural…
Most articles on the death of madman Charles Manson opened by mentioning his role in the diabolical Tate-LaBianca murders. The AP story started this way: Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America…
