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Searching for phrases to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton’s first newspaper column, I find myself sounding like a wine snob: “a certain naïve charm,” “fresh and green-tasting with hints of corn,” and “needs plenty of time to mature—keep in a dark place.”

It may not be Mrs. Clinton’s own handiwork, of course. It lacks, for instance, the wacky sophomoric platitudes of her valedictory address at Wellesley —the collected works of Marcuse, Abbie Hoffman, and the Weathermen put through a blender and spread very thin. Nor does it have any taint of her earnest postdoctoral search for “meaning.”

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John O’Sullivan

John O’Sullivan is a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review.

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Searching for phrases to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton’s first newspaper column, I find myself sounding like a wine snob: “a certain naïve charm,” “fresh and green-tasting with hints of corn,” and “needs plenty of time to mature—keep in a dark place.”

It may not be Mrs. Clinton’s own handiwork, of course. It lacks, for instance, the wacky sophomoric platitudes of her valedictory address at Wellesley —the collected works of Marcuse, Abbie Hoffman, and the Weathermen put through a blender and spread very thin. Nor does it have any taint of her earnest postdoctoral search for “meaning.”