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Politics and entertainment
Donald Trump’s secret (Jon Stewart’s too)
If politics is such a serious business, why is an overgrown adolescent like Donald Trump outpolling serious adult candidates? Why was a “fake news” anchor like Jon Stewart more trusted than real news anchors? For good reason, it turns out.
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Democracy’s savior?
Where are you, Andrew Jackson, when we really need you?
From Russia to Hungary to Egypt, the forces of democracy seem in retreat. Who will champion government of the people? Funny you should ask. . . .
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De Gaulle vs. Hitler, 75 years later
When one man asked, ‘Has the last word been said?’
At a low point in French history, an obscure general aroused his nation to drive out a seemingly invincible foreign army, much like Joan of Arc five centuries earlier. You and I were among the beneficiaries, as I discovered last month.
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French turmoil, then and now
Terror in the trenches, and at the airport
The simulated terror of World War I trench warfare was behind us. Now, we were on the last leg of our vacation, heading for Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris. We were about to experience a real nightmare of our own.
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My 15 minutes of fame
They call me the Yuppie specialist
My 15 minutes arrived last month, only 35 years after the seed was planted, and for a reason I would never have expected.
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A response to 'A defense of Andrew Jackson'
A slave-owner and an Indian-killer
Is considering Jackson’s treatment, personal and political, of blacks and Native Americans an example of political correctness gone awry, of unfairly “judging a 19th-century figure by 21st-century standards”? No, not at all.
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In defense of Andrew Jackson
On giving Old Hickory the business
Suddenly, Andrew Jackson is being reviled as a slave-owner and Indian killer. Yet in his own time, America’s seventh president was a transformational figure who laid the groundwork for all the reforms that have empowered the dispossessed to this day.
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Politicians, lawyers, and the 'Inquirer'
The Inquirer, shocked again
Politicians and lawyers are much like actors, performing for impressionable audiences in order to achieve an immediate goal at a particular moment. Why is this concept so difficult for some journalists to grasp?
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Charles Krauthammer feels your pain
The night of the pundit
Did you ever wonder how pundits like Charles Krauthammer and Peggy Noonan can possibly know what all Americans are thinking and feeling? So did I, until my phone rang last week.
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Anger, violence, and the police
Who caused this darkness?
A Baltimore mother was lionized for beating up her teenage son when she spotted him at a protest demonstration. And the lesson is….
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