Puncturing the Anti-Government Big Lie
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 30th, 2011 4:36 am by HL
Puncturing the Anti-Government Big Lie
What’s to be done about a domestic political discourse becoming unmoored from reality? The debt ceiling stand-off and early rounds of the 2012 campaign debate on the economy are disheartening markers of the sorry state of American politics. One of…
Best of the Commentary on Rupert’s Escape
Rupert Murdoch and his son James effected a Houdini-like escape yesterday from the none-too-tight coils of a hearing designed by British parliamentarians eager to look more righteous — and less complicit — than many of them actually are in the…
What Blinds Murdoch Apologists Like Roger Cohen?
Why is it that journalists who’ve written very credibly as impassioned defenders of the public sphere also swoon over Rupert Murdoch, the brilliant entrepreneur, as if his business triumphs cleansed what he does to every public sphere he touches? In…
