I went to the zoo. I know this might seem extraordinary to you. But since I’m used to living among journalists, it feels perfectly normal to me. When I got to the wild boar compound — those things are pretty…
You can be for or against the tariff war. I suppose every conflict has its good and bad sides. Each side usually has a solid reason. But in the past, we at least had the Geneva Convention. Responding to what…
Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography By Tom Arnold-Forster (Princeton University Press, 368 pages, $35) Walter Lippmann was at one time the most influential American writer on politics and world affairs. His writing career spanned the time period from the Progressive…
Have you ever met someone and become instant friends? All my best friends have been instant friends. One shared a tent at summer camp when we were eight years old and that was it. One sat at the back of…
An undercover journalist for the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) caught the Democratic National Committee’s compliance manager, Joyce DeCerce, saying the quiet part out loud. An anonymous female undercover journalist matched with DeCerce on Bumble, a dating app, and set up…
High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism By David Wills (Beatdom Books, 557 pages, $15) On September 28, 1987, the following appeared in the editorial section of the San Francisco Examiner: Joe Biden is gone now —…
When the New York Times profiled Obama staffer Ben Rhodes in 2016, Rhodes made no secret of his frustration with the media: “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old.… They literally know nothing.” But if there’s anything…
The divisions in America are so severe, we’re told, that we’re heading for civil war. It’s a sentiment one hears frequently. Never have we as a nation been so polarized. Democrat and Republican. Left and right. Blue and red. Liberal…
Last night, during the eclipse, I was having a few drinks. That’s not the news. The news is that I was having drinks with a retired paratrooper who put his life on the line during various special operations in the…
