tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post5375119630666093294..comments2024-03-10T09:24:45.565+02:00Comments on Dispatches from Vilnius: Walter Lippmann: Public OpinionJames Fergusonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-64710383402178394522010-09-05T11:42:06.021+03:002010-09-05T11:42:06.021+03:00I guess I should have put Safire in the past tense...I guess I should have put Safire in the past tense. <br /><br />It seems like you can't be any kind of politician these days without copiously referencing, if not quoting, the Bible, but somehow the Republicans have managed to co-opt the evangelical strain of politics these days. What hurts them is their whiter than white attitude which comes across as a throwback to the Jim Crow days. NotJames Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-10884498482948932712010-09-03T18:03:26.456+03:002010-09-03T18:03:26.456+03:00Possibly, Walter Lippmann's greatest writing:
...Possibly, Walter Lippmann's greatest writing:<br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=-E4WFG-G30sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+preface+to+morals+by+lippmann&source=bl&ots=aWkKDhEh1Z&sig=jIPwLVc-HhhES8zhoPdQs3VfR30&hl=en&ei=4wyBTLCdLo2-sAP5t4j3Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false<br /><br />'&Tripplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568801152695491482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-76340514366283219272010-09-03T08:35:12.785+03:002010-09-03T08:35:12.785+03:00There was a time Conservatism had a strong intelle...There was a time Conservatism had a strong intellectual voice, but that seems gone today. I suppose the anti-intellectualism fueled by Nixon and McCarthy pretty much laid the ground work for the anti-intellectualism that dominates the Republican Party today. <br /><br />Dubya was quite boastful of his mediocre grades in high school and college and did his best to promote himself as a "goodJames Fergusonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901612633415337879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-38759033957749179782010-09-01T00:32:40.970+03:002010-09-01T00:32:40.970+03:00I read PUBLIC OPINION in high school and a few ye...I read PUBLIC OPINION in high school and a few years ago picked up INTERPETATIONS 1933-1935--filed with his colums covering the period including the rise of Hitler. I haven't read it--but will get my caretaker to read me some of the columns.robertwhelanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12734928563705595948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9103772230302021699.post-41311356145516054352010-09-01T00:21:39.076+03:002010-09-01T00:21:39.076+03:00I'mso old I remember Lippmann's twice week...I'mso old I remember Lippmann's twice weekly column in THE NEW YORRK HERALD TRIBUNE _Tuesday and Thursday).It was reqyured reading in my History class. I learned a lot from that man.He helped form my thoughts. He was a true conservative, along with William F. Buckley---both would throw up at the thought of a Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck. What a perversion of true conservative thought.<br /robertwhelanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12734928563705595948noreply@blogger.com