Last week, the world watched video of President Joe Biden ordering a pie in a Michigan farm food store. An off-camera reporter asks him about “the recent hack by the Russians” (a major cyberattack), and Biden mumbles in reply, “We’re…
Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of the Associated Press, referred to the destruction of the 12-story building in Gaza City where his agency had a bureau on the top floor as “incredibly disturbing.” Nobody likes to get bombed out of…
A basic tactic of political propaganda is to brand your opponents as dishonest or stupid. No one trusts a known liar, and no one wants to be associated with beliefs they consider stupid. Unfortunately, propaganda is generally a tool of…
In an 1816 letter to his friend Charles Yancey, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the…
Churchill & Son Josh Ireland (Dutton, 464 pages, $34) Despite an inauspicious beginning, Churchill & Son is a thoughtful study of a father-son relationship during the storms that rocked the 20th century. Randolph Churchill has now prompted six books —…
Washington I was right. I have been right for over 50 years. Through those at times lonely years, I have been patronized by affluent magazines and newspapers for setting up The American Spectator as an organ of opinion that eschewed…
Those of us who have attended law school spent a full academic year taking an Evidence course. We discovered, to our surprise, real-life examples as to how law actually operates. Among these: A skilled, determined liar rarely breaks down under…
Travel writing. It’s all about traveling, right? COVID-19 has closed borders and restricted access, forcing the industry to concentrate on memoirs of previous trips, country-by-country updates, or speculation on what travel may look like “post-pandemic.” And when travel “shines again?”…
Hardly any journalists get scoops anymore because almost everybody already knows everything. A couple of afternoons ago, in the fruit shop, the lady who has worked there for as long as I can remember greeted me with arched eyebrows and…
