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Is Journalism School Worth It?
Clarence Darrow dropped out of law school after just a year, figuring that he would learn what he needed to know about legal practice faster if he were actually doing it than sitting in classrooms. (Today, that wouldn't be possible, thanks to licensing requirements.)
The same thing is true in other fields -- ...
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A Five-Point Victory in a Solid Red District Isn’t Exactly a Great Sign
Making the click-through worthwhile: A bit of good news for Republicans in an Arizona special election (and I do mean just a bit); an ugly comment from a Republican Senate candidate; and a look at what worries Americans about China -- and why they’re right to be worried.
Republicans Finally Win One . . . ...
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Microscopic Dots. Let’s Look at Them.
Stuart E. Eizenstat has written a big book on the Carter presidency. (Eizenstat was Carter’s chief domestic-policy adviser. He also had a substantial hand in foreign affairs.) I have reviewed the book for the forthcoming NR. Eizenstat tells the story of a meeting between President Carter and Andrei Gromyko, the ...
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Mere Witness in Russia Probe Faces Financial Ruin
While Washington feeds its insatiable Trump/Russia-collusion jones, Americans are going broke in the process. Mere witnesses before congressional oversight panels, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry, and the grand jury he has convened endure ginormous legal bills. Although they are not suspected of ...
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Why North Korea Isn’t Going to Give Up Its Nukes
Responding to reports that North Korea said it “no longer needs” nuclear tests, Jim Hanson, president of the generally pro-Trump Security Studies Group, credited President Trump.
“No one was expecting anything to come of Trump’s fiery rhetoric, except people who understand that diplomacy works better ...
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The Freaks and Geeks Documentary Exposes the Roots of Bad Movies
The Tribeca Film Festival’s yearly television and virtual-reality sidebar events confirm the ongoing collapse of film culture. I not only suffered through the anti-human, anti-cinema second-season premiere of HBO’s dystopic sci-fi series Westworld, but I also endured the premiere showing of Freaks and Geeks: ...
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Internet Archive Says No Evidence Joy Reid’s Anti-LGBT Posts Were Fraudulent
Representatives for the Wayback Machine said they have not been able to find evidence that anti-LGBT posts on MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid old blog were the work of a hacker, as Reid has claimed.
A left-wing Twitter user this week unearthed old posts from 2007 to 2009 on Reid's now-defunct blog The Reid Report that ...
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