Word: partisanship
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...post-partisanship is not without its occupational hazards. In attempting to go beyond the parties, John Kennedy, Jr. and his new, self-declared "post-partisan" monthly George have gone beyond taste, content, and politics itself...
Enter post-partisan politics. Since the two party system only promotes the kind of shrillness we have come to know and loathe, why not go beyond the two party system? The move from partisanship to post-partisanship suggests a grand growing up, a national transition from late adolescence to early adulthood...
George's post-partisanship follows from its emphasis on the personal aspects of political life. George is not interested in the raging issues of our day, from Bosnia to welfare reform. It is, however, enthralled with Teresa Heinz who has now married senators from both parties...
George is contemptuous of partisanship because it is contemptuous of politics. If we all like to eat fine food and drink fine wine, George seems to argue, why can't we just put all this Medicare talk behind...
ROBERT HUGHES' ATTACK ON CRITICS OF the NEA and NEH has an all too familiar ring. In its partisanship and preference for diatribe over argument, it resembles much of what today passes for scholarship and sometimes art. While a case can be made for preserving the endowments, Hughes' shallow, sneering polemic does it little justice. Indeed, the persistently ad hominem character of his essay only fortifies the impression of an intellectual culture too coarsened to be much worth supporting. Much more than the future of two federal agencies is at stake. STEPHEN H. BALCH, President National Association of Scholars Princeton...