. Just over two years ago, I wrote a post titled “The Unsound Judgment of Andrew Sullivan.” Sullivan, for all his true virtues, is a man of strikingly unsound judgment. He swings, he swings frequently, he swings with emotion from one impassioned response to another, a kind of journalistic Thaïs transforming regularly from the life of […]
“The One”
. Before there was The Moonwalk, there was “The One,” James Brown, subject of a new biography by that name by RJ Smith. Writes Janet Maslin in her New York Times book review, So the reader who knows little of Mr. Brown’s story may not instantly grasp why that story is so mesmerizing. For that […]
Thinking Through the Iranian Dilemma
Attempting to think through a dilemma like the threat of a nuclear Iran is like trying to make one’s way through a windstorm. For most people, who have none of the inside information of those in various official roles, or the view from the doorway of the analysts with access, all of the details that […]
Your Hit Parade – March 14, 1952
. The number one song that day. Kay Starr: “Wheel of Fortune.”
Time for a Different Kind of “Game Change”
. Sometimes, often, watching the Sunday Morning news programs (like any other of their kind) can cause near combustion in one’s cranium. The sheer hackneyed handicapping of “the game,” the crony punditry and homogenized thinking are mental toxins. Here is George Stephanopoulos leading and permitting this palaverous exchange about HBO’s film version of Game Change. […]