Journalism, Politics in America “Revolutions in communication tend to pull the people away from the élites” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 February 2016 Revolutions in communication tend to pull the people away from the élites. (The printing...
Journalism, Politics in America “The American two-party system is a creation of the press” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2016 The American two-party system is a creation of the press. “The idea of a...
Politics in America “America’s most skilled political entertainer is putting on the greatest show we’ve ever seen” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 February 2016 It is undeniably enjoyable to watch Trump. He’s red-faced, discursive, funny, angry, strange, unpredictable,...
America, Politics in America “…American liberalism had a lot of the South in it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 November 2015 After slavery had ended and Reconstruction gave way to the Jim Crow system, the...
America, Politics in America “The civil-rights revolution, too, can be thought of as a bargain, not simply a victory: the nation has become Southernized just as much as the South has become nationalized” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 November 2015 The South was the country’s aberrant region—wayward, backward, benighted—but it was at last going...
Rabbis “Rabbis in America and in Israel talk about political issues all the time, and maybe it is appropriate to ask whether that is a good policy for them and for the community” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 October 2015 Rabbis in America and in Israel are used to speaking about political issues. They...
Entertainment, Politics in America “The bleed of entertainment into politics is hardly new. It’s been rued and prophesied for many decades…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 October 2015 We now utterly conflate entertainment and politics, routinely confuse celebrity with authority and regularly...
Politics in America “The image of black helicopters gained currency among antigovernment and militia enthusiasts in the mid-1990s” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 September 2015 A common weapon for bludgeoning a ‘‘crazy’’ is to insinuate paranoia by consigning them...
Politics in America “When happiness has become championed and talked about incessantly, as it is today, the best we can hope for is that it raises other universal issues…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 August 2015 When happiness has become championed and talked about incessantly, as it is today, the...
Politics in America “Crying ‘gotcha’ has now become like crying wolf. The term has been cheapened by overuse” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 August 2015 Crying “gotcha” has now become like crying wolf. The term has been cheapened by...