by Peter Simon | May 9, 2016 | Culture, Ephemera, Politics |
Certain writers, correct or not, are valuable and a joy to read. (G. K. Chesterton, for instance, with whom I agree less and less each year, but whose every page is sparkling.) Yes, style salvages substance, if one applies enough of it. Andrew Sullivan has style....
by Peter Simon | May 2, 2016 | Culture, Politics |
Thomas Edsall’s latest article in the New York Times, How The Other Fifth Lives, nicely adds some data to what is usually an over-moralized subject. But unfortunately not a lot. Analysis of a disease — at least clarification of its key terms — should...
by Peter Simon | May 1, 2016 | Culture, Politics |
Andrew Sullivan’s recent assault on Trump in New York Magazine — “The Case Against The People” — is so bad I am loathe to waste pixels on it, viewing it as little more than the conditioned Pavlovian drool one has come to expect from illiberal...
by Peter Simon | Apr 14, 2016 | Culture, Ideology, Politics |
At the moment 35% of Republican voters vote Trump. The emotional drivers of many of them are considered to be anger and anxiety, but journalists suggesting that anger is the whole of the Trump phenomenon are merely throwing the usual mud at The Donald. Some like him...
by Peter Simon | Mar 15, 2016 | Culture, Ideology, Politics |
What distinguishes Bernie Sanders from Donald Trump? The similarities of these two candidates is one of the unspoken mysteries of the 2016 campaign. Their outsider status, the overwhelming whiteness of their constituency, their working class support, their unease...
