Politics & Policy

A Summers Break

By Kathleen Parker November 14, 2008

Fresh ire aimed at former Harvard University President Larry Summers prompts the question: Shouldn’t there be a statute of limitations on dumb things expressed in public? (Please say yes.) Forever accursed is ...

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You Can’t Get There From Here

By Kathleen Parker November 12, 2008

Election Day has produced fresh fury from self-proclaimed “conservatives” promising never again to read me or fellow apostates who criticized the Republican ticket. This is, of course, their right, but is ...

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Postscript

By Kathleen Parker November 7, 2008

‘Fess up. You wept.’ OK, I’ll go first. Tears came twice. First, when John McCain hushed his booing crowd to acknowledge the significance of this nation’s electing an African-American to the presidency. ...

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Not the Best of Times, but Hardly the Worst

By Kathleen Parker November 5, 2008

Three conversations on Election Eve: One: A friend recounts a traumatic childhood event, prompting me to say something like, “Oh, that must have been horrible.” “No,” he says. “Horrible was Auschwitz. What ...

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The Final Hours

By Kathleen Parker October 31, 2008

It is hard to imagine that “undecideds,” like restless phantoms with unfinished business, still haunt these final hours. What can they be waiting for? An epiphany? Some final bit of information ...

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The Other Bush Legacy

By Kathleen Parker October 29, 2008

Women, not men, will save the world. First Lady Laura Bush didn’t say those precise words, but her remarks Monday to a small gathering of biographers, historians, and journalists implied as ...

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Tragic Flaw

By Kathleen Parker October 24, 2008

My husband called it first. Then, a brilliant, 75-year-old scholar and raconteur confessed to me over wine: ‘I’m sexually attracted to her. I don’t care that she knows nothing.’ Finally, writer ...

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It’s Not the Economy

By Kathleen Parker October 22, 2008

At this juncture, I wouldn’t want to bet even a subprime mortgage on this presidential election. As perhaps never before, multiple hidden factors could alter the outcome. Judging by polls, it ...

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Carpe Christo

By Kathleen Parker October 20, 2008

Christopher Buckley doesn’t merely observe the zeitgeist better than anyone else on the planet.

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The Buckley Son Rises

By Kathleen Parker October 17, 2008

Christopher Buckley’s endorsement of Barack Obama — followed by his abrupt departure from the back page of the magazine his father founded, National Review — has caused a ripple of ...