CURRENT WISDOM
cuRRenT WIsDoM The Great books series Someone by the name of Greg Anrig concludes yet another book-length obituary to America’s long and apparently boring expanse of eco-nomic growth, relative...
...Hart said: “We have been married longer than the president in the White House today...
...John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 288 pages, $25.95 USA/ $26,000 Cuba ) The Progressive The floriferous Miss Amy Goodman, served up in one of our favorite mad-houses as “one of the leading jour-nalists of our time,” relieves herself: “War is the defining issue...
...by Justus T. Rathbone, and often overlooked in the anti-American canon: “We mourn the passing of Philip Agee, the courageous former CIA officer who, in his 1975 book, Inside the Com-pany: CIA Diary, exposed the agency’s subversion of democracy and its prac-tices of torture and murder, naming hundreds of officers, agents, and com-panies involved with the crimes...
...I may be the first one to have publicly confessed, but I won’t be the first...
...We cannot take the focus off of that because we are determining who lives and who dies...
...January 24, 2008) Real Time with bill Maher (Hbo) Comic Richard Belzer provides more evidence that the historians’ Para-noid Style of American Politics has migrated leftward and not all that amusingly: “This is a big heist, this is a big heist...
...I don’t think so,” he told me...
...Carter emerges as a man of con-viction and great compassion...
...January 24, 2008) Special thanks to Adrian L. Albert of Edmonton, Alberta 80 THe AMeRIcAn sPecTAToR APRIl 2008 cuRRenT WIsDoM new York Times From the “Travel” section of the illustrious Times, an amusing eye-witness account of Nader-watching during the Nation’s 10th annual cruise, executed once again without a fatality: “Do you think we’ll ever see Ralph Nader in the hot tub...
...It’s horrify-ing...
...But we seem to be simple have evolved enough to make love creatures, incapable of living with somewhat less fraught...
...Its conservative politics and contempt for liberal concerns repel those of a more compassionate bent...
...Hartpence indulges in some braggadocio over past triumphs: “If I am elected, I won’t be the first adulterer in the White House,” Mr...
...Every time I’ve seen him he’s disinfecting himself at the Purell hand-sanitizing station...
...We have kept our marriage together...
...But as long as it falls off the front pages of the newspapers, people can think, ‘Well, it must not be that bad.’ It’s our job to make sure it’s front and center...
...Agee was motivated, he said, by the CIA’s support for ‘the worst imaginable hor-rors’ in Latin America...
...They have already made history, and they are out to do it again, together, through it all...
...Not just Ronald Reagan but a lot of people...
...february 17, 2008) The nation For all those lugubrious souls who believe the Age of Heroes is kaput, our favorite NeoStalinist journal eulogizes one of the greats, Philip Agee, who passed away on January 9 (Richard Nixon’s birthday...
...January 2008) book World Esteemed literary critic Michael Dirda proves that at heart he is a nudist: “By now, after millennia, you would nervous system breaks down from have thought that humankind would overload...
...So we just world where men and women might lurch along, assailed by pheromones openly have friends, lovers and spous-and endorphins, temptations and es, and not require a single person to regrets...
...And as long as that is going on I think it is our responsibility to show that...
...In Iraq, the population is just deci-mated, displaced, killed...
...Then people can make up their own minds...
...On his marriage, Mr...
...cuRRenT WIsDoM The Great books series Someone by the name of Greg Anrig concludes yet another book-length obituary to America’s long and apparently boring expanse of eco-nomic growth, relative social harmo-ny, and continued national security from foreign menaces by revealing his ticks: “Back in 1996, Michael Lind, a former protégé of William F. Buckley Jr...
...January 25, 2008) edmonton Journal An innocent Canadian aesthete reviews pornography for a great gazette of the North: “During his time in office, Jimmy Carter was generally seen as some-thing of a joke...
...The man often called the most gifted politician of his generation is once again at the center of American poli-tics, taking over the 2008 Democratic campaign...
...In his new movie, Jimmy Carter: The Man from Plains, Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme goes a long way towards changing that deep-fried image...
...And he’s clearly loving every minute of it….He lectures and jokes around and feels your pain and implores you to believe….It’s so unprecedented, this personal and polit-ical partnership, so fraught with his-tory and Baby Boomer melodrama...
...I asked a fellow cruiser at one point...
...february 2008) nightline (Abc) ABC’s Terry Moran reports just days before the former Boy Presi-dent commits hari-kari in the South Carolina primary: “There he [Boy Clinton] goes again...
...But it is not too late to rescue America from conservatism.’ Tick…tick…tick…” (From The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing, by Greg Anrig...
...be all three of these until his or her (february 10, 2008) from the Archives Timeless Tosh from current Wisdoms Past (April 1988): usA Today A congratulatory message from the magazine reviewer of the incom-parable USA Today: Many people despise R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.’s The American Spectator...
...Hart said...
...The right wing is in power, the bank-ers are screwing everyone—the oil companies, Halliburton—this is no f--king mystery….It started with Reagan crushing the poor, crushing the unions, rewarding people, putting them into heads of certain depart-ments of the government and then disassembling those departments because they have contempt for the government...
...More-over, he buries his yokel persona under a dump truck of deep thoughts, proving he’s not just a smart guy, he may have been the best president of our times...
...One could argue—I wouldn’t—that Ronald Reagan walked away from a marriage...
...Mr...
...January 1988) APRIl 2008 THe AMeRIcAn sPecTAToR 81...
...Hart and his wife, Lee, met with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register during a campaign swing in Iowa...
...Lind concluded it by writing, ‘It is too late to rescue American conservatism from the radical right...
...January 11, 1988) Daily forty niner The editors of Cal-State Long Beach’s paper of record come down smartly on the side of progress: Ignoring the rhetoric that both sides conveyed before, during and after the summit, it becomes apparent that only one leader may have been sincere when it came to making promises for world peace: Mikhail Gorbachev...
...We have destroyed a civilization...
...february 12, 1988) Washington Times Washington’s Good Times reports it all as the Hon...
...in the loving arms of Communist Cuba, for whom he betrayed Amerika in the hope of transforming it into a Castroite paradise, possibly even a Stalinist paradise, free of gas guz-zlers, Wal-Marts, and the Knights of Pythias—founded in 1864 in Wash-ington, D.C...
...If it weren’t anything more complicated than a for jealousy…one could imagine a binary on-off arrangement...
...Forever the target of Mad magazine satire and the editorial cartoonist’s black ink pen, Carter was reduced to big teeth and a Southern drawl...
...who became disillusioned with the right over its increasingly hyperbolic attacks on taxes, welfare, and liberal values, wrote a prescient book called Up from Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong for America...
Vol. 41 • April 2008 • No. 3
