In Presidential Politics, Is Ignorance Really Bliss?
Romney and his fellow GOP hopefuls can take comfort in new research indicating that on the pressing issues of the day, their coveted conservative cohort seeks nothing more than to know nothing.
Romney and his fellow GOP hopefuls can take comfort in new research indicating that on the pressing issues of the day, their coveted conservative cohort seeks nothing more than to know nothing.
Christopher Strong | Posted 11.26.2011
Life's Like That One of the many interesting positions that life can twist you into is that of being wrong and right on the same subject. Such has b...
Lev Raphael | Posted 11.19.2011
Austen excelled at wielding the skewer. Lady Catherine de Bourgh is an obvious example in Pride and Prejudice. But the book holds worse.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.28.2011
It was Harry Cohn, boss of Columbia Pictures, who said "give the people what they want, and they'll come out for it." Now they can stay in and watch it. And what they watched in June is the Casey Anthony trial.
Cheryl Carlesimo | Posted 07.11.2011
For me, sautéed saucy soft-shell crabs are nirvana. I have created a recipe that I have to say tastes heavenly. Every year, my friends wait impatiently for me to make them.
Christian Science Monitor | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.26.2011
When the priest asks him why, with his days numbered, he still has not turned to God, Meursault, the death row inmate in Albert Camus's "L'Étranger,"...
Simon Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011
When the age of Mencken passed, many felt that the column would be followed by nothing but news. But today, given the millions of words of columns, billions of blogs and tweets, opinion is riding high.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
The sole suspense lies in figuring out which of the supporting players will survive the trip. That's because there's barely anything else of interest amidst the standard-issue action setpieces.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 05.25.2011
The point is not that Televangelists are scoundrels, or that many Christian pastors are hypocrites, but that these grand ministry failures represent examples of what many mainstream churches have, in desperation, come to believe is relevant.
Asher Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
Sarah Palin's right that "English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." And that's something to be afraid of -- because she's contributing far more to the trough of public consciousness than just a few verbal miscues.
Posted 05.25.2011
Tempers are flaring in Colorado over reactions to Arizona's controversial immigration bill. On Monday, Colorado Representative Jared Polis said the l...
Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011
You may think that Carly Fiorina's "Demon Sheep" ad will hurt Fiorina's chances, but the video has given the senatorial candidate free publicity.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
When pundits labeled last year's presidential campaign "divisive" and "dirty," I had to laugh. The champion of all dirty races in this century, in fact, was the 1934 contest between Upton Sinclair and Frank Merriam.
Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011
We are a fear-driven culture. There is a large segment of the population that, no matter how well you document it, will not let a good fact get in the way of their fears about health care reform.
Tom Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011
Conservatives believe -- with justification -- that if they get angry enough and loud enough, liberals will back down from fights like this one.
Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011
The notion that a musician will drink to "calm the nerves" or deal with performance anxiety is as antiquated as the idea that a steel worker needs gin as an "eye opener" before his shift at the mill.
Michelle Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011
It's worth noticing that this is not the first time Palin has hidden from scrutiny on a campaign trail in order to cover up her lack of knowledge.
Nathan Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011
The Newseum is a mammoth structure, and it does a fairly good job of illustrating just why mainstream media is such a letdown, even if it does so unintentionally.
Michael Sigman | Posted 01.30.2012