Elaborating The New Normal
Thomas Edsall often seems a cut above other Times writers because he likes to shore up his case with numbers. The problem is, making a case involves more than finding supporting data: it means seeking out all the data, including any data that disconfirms your...
Thinking Outside The Vice Presidential Box
Someone asked me the other day who I thought would be a good Vice Presidential choice for Trump. Monica Lewinsky sprang immediately to mind, but one can't expect even this campaign to be that amusing. There are, of course, any number of potential candidates, and...
Andrew Sullivan’s Infection
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....
American Nomenklatura
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 precede...
The Case Against The People Against The People
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 liberal commentary on...
Sander’s Whites and Trump’s
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...
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