Wanting to see how the remoralizing of America was going, I
went to George W. Bush’s speech on education at the Sheraton New York Hotel
recently. He didn’t tell any jokes about dead women-he must not have heard any
new ones.
Mr. Bush had three purposes in coming here: to make waves in
When you learned to duck and cover in second grade, when you practiced air-raid drills during the Cuban missile crisis, you don’t easily forget the weird combination of terror and excitement. And when the world radically changes in your middle years, well, you become the proverbial old grump, talking about the good old days when Read More
Early in John Adams’ long retirement, he sat down to write his memoirs, which never got far, but did nail down this point. “No Virgin or Matron ever had cause to blush at the sight of me, or to regret her Acquaintance with me,” he wrote. Following in Adams’ footsteps, in this if in no Read More
