The demise of The Weekly Standard was a pleasure, not because I like to see print magazines go down the drain—to the contrary—but because of its parentage, William Kristol and John Podhoretz. These two unpleasant neocons are known as the “Poisoned Dwarf” and “Four Pizzas,” respectively, and rarely have I seen two bigger con men get away with more stuff than this pair. They are smarmy, loquacious, and incompetent except for self-promotion, and were the movers and cheerleaders for the worst foreign-policy decision Uncle Sam has made, with the possible exception of Vietnam. They, of ...
Within my lifetime, The New York Times will close its doors for good. "It's not even a newspaper anymore," Dennis Miller likes to say. "It's just a building acrobats climb." So ...
Eric Schmidt has seen the future, and he's been kind enough to share it with us. In a recent interview with the Telegraph, the Google boss gets all dewy-eyed and breathless over the search engine's ...
In journalism school, where I learned how to use commas, many of my teachers were commies. I’m not accusing them of being communists"they told me so themselves. One ...
The other day in The Wall Street Journal, my friend Fred Barnes deposited a few thoughts on journalism provoked by the discovery to a mother lode of left-wing bigotry, screeds and ...
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. —George Orwell There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time ...
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