In Tom Brokaw’s documentary Boomers!, which aired last week, the main subjects — six baby boomers — asked the narrator at the end of the program what he thought a good word was to describe the baby boomer legacy. To which Brokaw answers, “Unrealized.”
Brokaw had spent the better part of the two-hour documentary describing how [...]
Tom Brokaw Lets Baby Boomers Off the Hook
March 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Magazine says W.H. Islam envoy misquoted; writer denies – POLITICO.com
February 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A magazine that altered an article referring to President Barack Obama’s new envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Rashad Hussain, says it did so because he was misquoted, but the author of the article is standing by her story. Hussain, now a deputy associate White House counsel, was quoted back in 2004 decrying [...]
A Post About Comments: Thanks to Ron Paul Fans, I Have An Answer for Swindle and Rushkoff
February 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Last month, Editor David Swindle introduced NRB guests to the sagacious Douglas Rushkoff and his latest work, Digital Nation. Joining the author in his musings about the mental dribble and dung that accounts for much of what is consumed by the “Digital Nation,” Swindle posed the question:
“Is the Internet Destroying Our Lives or Enriching Them?”
Before [...]
From the Writings of David Horowitz: February 5, 2010
February 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Winston Churchill once remarked that there was nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Perhaps that’s why he enjoyed being a conservative — it guaranteed he would frequently be a target.
Recently, I dodged my own political bullet when columnist Jack White smeared me as a “racist” in Time magazine. In fact, [...]
Roger Kimball: Howard Zinn Professor of Contempt – National Review Online
February 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
With Howard Zinn, contemporary American academia found its court historian. Zinn, who died January 27 at 87, was like a gigantic echo chamber, accurately reproducing — and actively reinforcing — every left-wing cliché with which the academy has abetted its sense of election these past several decades. “You see how smart he is,” saith the [...]
The Death of Global Warming?
February 2, 2010 By 76 Comments
The political hysteria persists, but prominent dissenters are emerging.
Introducing The Naomi Wolf Award
January 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For too long, extraordinary feats of feminist moral blindness have gone unrecognized. But now, those dark days are finally over.
Today, I am pleased to introduce The Naomi Wolf Award, affectionately known as The Howler.
The award bears the name of author Naomi Wolf, a third wave feminist who provoked a blogospheric kerfuffle last year with [...]
The State Of The Union Address Obama Should Give
January 27, 2010 By 35 Comments
A Frontpage symposium on the president’s big speech.
Horowitz Questions Zinn Legacy on NPR
Mr.DAVID HOROWITZ (Author): There is absolutely nothing in Howard Zinn’s intellectual output that is worthy of any kind of respect.
KEYES: Conservative pundit and author David Horowitz is among critics who fiercely disagree with Zinn’s politics. Horowitz calls “A People’s History of the United States” a travesty.
Mr. HOROWITZ: Zinn represents a fringe mentality which has unfortunately [...]
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