A Conversation With Irving Kristol
The following article was published in the May 1969
edition of The Alternative
(as The American Spectator was
then known).
Irving Kristol, co-editor of the Public Interest
with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is one of those stalwart
Liberals who answers the call to truth even when it entails
[...]
A Van Jones Postscript
The defining accomplishment of Van Jones’s life was his founding of the Ella Baker Freedom Center. While the controversy over his appointment was going on I meant to look into who she was, but didn’t get it done. Ron Radosh, an expert on the hard left of which he was once a member, [...]
What’s In a Name? Well, Everything!
Shakespeare notwithstanding, a rose by any other name would not, in fact, smell as sweet; “seeing is believing” is a much less accurate saying than “believing is seeing” — especially in politics, the art of the image. “What a fool believes, he sees.”
The winner of the race to define one’s opponent typically wins the [...]
