Year: 2016

Casual Observation

A lot of us have been waiting for David Brooks to put his conscience over his career for a decade and a half. The stand he’s taking against Trump shouldn’t be unique to Trump. It’s a stand that should have been...

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Kissinger and the Presidential Race

On February 7th, 1999, Henry Kissinger was interviewed as part of a retrospective series that CNN did on the Cold War. Near the end of the session, the interviewer asked Kissinger for a broad view of where things stood in the...

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A Serious Question – AGAIN

In following election and caucus day live coverage and reports from bloggers and later reports in print, a common theme from many states is “we’ve never before experienced this level of turnout or this many...

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