Here’s what counts as TV journalism in this age of infotainment. The interviewer asks a question, the politician delivers her stump speech, which has nothing to do with the question being asked. The interviewer asks another question, and she responds… Read More ›
Republicans
ANIMUS
Because for seventy years Yugoslavia was one country, as government workers, university professors, and so on, Serbs and Croats lived side by side in its capital, Belgrade. So I’m told that, when the war broke out after the death of… Read More ›
WHAT’S A POLITICIAN’S BASE?
Apparently in American presidential politics there’s something called a base. The Democrats have one, the Republics have another, and Donald Trump has his very own. Voters who don’t belong to a base can drift from one candidate to another, but… Read More ›
THE NEXT FOURTEEN YEARS
In the words of Shakespeare’s Mark Anthony, “The evil that men do live after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.” Fortunately it’s the opposite with political prognostications. No one remembers if you get it wrong. But if… Read More ›