Word: dynasticism
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Funny that the Adams family (President John Adams and his son President John Quincy Adams, who was the grandfather of Henry) keeps popping up. George Bush the Elder, in a jocular dynastic mood, has taken to calling his son "Quincy," and over the weekend, the New York Times published a...
The Florida court sprayed its decision with fragrantly pietistic aerosol to the effect that "the right of the people to cast their votes is the paramount concern," but what the Justices meant was that such dynastic masters of electoral arithmetic as William Daley, of Cook County, Illinois, should be permitted...
Unsympathetic to Bush: One of the reasons that Bush the Elder lost in 1992 is that his administration was intellectually sclerotic - after 12 years in power, the Republican White House not only had no new ideas, it scarcely had a capacity to think at all. The presidency had become a...
An odd sort of deflation comes in the aftermath of Super Tuesday - a sense of premature crescendo, as if the party had been called off at 9:30 p.m. John McCain and Bill Bradley gave the race its resonance - its conflict, its moral fire, its nastiness. Now - poof! - both of...
Updike's Gertrude is a feminist well ahead of her time. "A good woman," she muses, "lay in the bed others had made for her and walked in the shoes others had cobbled." A princess, she must marry the man her father, for dynastic reasons, chooses for her, even though...