June 11, 2018

The New York Times then, the New York Times now

The current indictment of James A. Wolfe, 58, security director for the Senate Subcommittee on Intelligence for 29 years, for passing classified information to reporters raises an interesting contrast of editorial standards under different editors at...

December 12, 2017

The real problem with judging Judge Roy Moore

Few societies have gone through as wrenching changes in behavior and social norms in the past forty years as America has.  We can scarcely recognize the social mores and attitudes then from today's perspective.  But as L.P. Hartley put ...

January 8, 2017

Esteban Santiago: The 'War against Boys' Goes Toxic

Christina Hoff Summers, Camille Paglia, and others have made excellent points about the cultural war against boys and men, with the ensuing confusion of identity and lost young men who emerge from a youth in which there every hope and dream and even ...

June 17, 2016

Is It Worth Reading a Newspaper Anymore?

Almost exactly a century ago at the great naval battle at Jutland, David Beatty said “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today” after two of his battleships exploded under German gunnery and incompetent seamanship by ...

August 21, 2004

Querying Kerry in Cambodia

John Kerry is beginning to look as clumsy as George Bush in answering questions about his military records. In February Bush was accused by Terry McAuliffe on Tim Russert's Meet the Press show of having been AWOL on his National Guard service in Alab...