"One of the most vicious tactics used by the media on public figures they dislike (and these are, of course, mostly conservatives) is to dust off...
Recurrent Use of Discredited Attacks in Media Coverage
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Culture Wars
Evolution and Amplification of Media Techniques
"[In the 1960s], journalistic practices underwent sharp modification in the direction of more aggressive, conclusion-oriented reportage. And,...
Media and Liberal Realignment
"The truth … is that American liberals lost effective control of the Johnson administration and its agenda in or about 1966, when Johnson's Great...
Liberal Media Watchdogs
"There is evidence that liberals … may themselves be preparing to enter the lists of those who monitor the media. According to [an item in the...
NYT Op-Ed Liberalism
"The Op-Ed page of the New York Times … is allegedly intended to afford space for the expression of a large variety of views on public questions,...
Limits of Social Conservatism
"Social conservatism, like economic conservatism, can at times become an offensive caricature of its best self. Cultural pride can freeze into...
Discomfort with Religious Right
"My own guess is that what makes the critics of the religious right obscurely uncomfortable about its views is not that it “tries to impose them on...
Media Bias Perceptions
"A conviction that the media in general are biased against liberalism is simply not to be found in liberalism's general set of beliefs as it is in...
The Kennedys
Politics tends to run in families. Once the patriarch has established himself as a political power, his friends will often form themselves into a...
America’s First Black President?
Almost without realizing it, America appears to be on the verge of electing its first black president. Political observers are in general agreement...
Here Comes Same-Sex Marriage
On Monday, June 16, San Francisco began implementing the ruling of the California Supreme Court authorizing same-sex marriages in the state....
America: A White-Minority Nation?
In the May 4 New York Times, columnist Frank Rich asserts that "Anyone who does the math knows that America is on track to become a white-minority...