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If politics is the world’s second oldest profession (and one that—as Ronald Reagan said—bears a “striking resemblance to the first”), the charge of hypocrisy has got to be its oldest characteristic.
Wiener’s profession of indebtedness is patronizing and disingenuous. Thernstrom, for one, won’t ask for that debt to be repaid any time soon. “I once knew Jon well, but we are not on speaking terms,” Thernstrom said last week...
Bellesiles’ book argued that firearms were far less widespread in pre-Civil War America than Second Amendment activists have led us to believe. According to Wiener, Bellesiles was tarred and feathered because the gun lobby “succeeded at putting pressure on his university, his publisher, and...
Coming from a profession where opinions are constantly and loudly expressed, Wynhausen at times can't curb her outrage at the way she and her colleagues are treated. Her co-workers urge her to be careful, for fear that she'll lose shifts or even her job. As Wynhausen admits...
“There is a huge attrition rate in my generation,” Mori said. “From my generation down it seems fairly solid. Women are in the profession, working and keeping up with it. It’s just a matter of getting into another...