Walter Russel Mead, in his usual long-but-worth-your-time style, explains the obvious: At bottom press bias is the consequence of honest efforts to report the real news by sincere and thoughtful people. There is a lot going on in our busy world these days, and every reporter and every editor has be selective. They have to… Read More Why Bias is Inevitable
…and according to Walter Russel Mead, even Democrats are eventually going to have to embrace this reality: Republicans and anti-blue statists will want to fix this because bad government is big government and takes a terrible toll on the economy (cumbersome procedures, bad decisions, a large and expensive staff). But smart proponents of a strong… Read More The Debt Can’t Go On Forever…
Walter Russel Mead has an excellent column on the continuing reverberations of the great Hamilton-Jefferson Divide. 200-plus years later, the argument is still not over. In Osawatomie and beyond, President Obama will run for re-election as a Hamiltonian and a custodian of the 20th century progressive state. He will argue that modest and careful reforms,… Read More Hamilton’s Blues
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