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Joe Biden's Vaunted Sense of His Own 'Decency' Led to His Undoing Jan. 17, 2025
WASHINGTON — I remember when the networks called the 2020 election for President Joe Biden. It... Read More
Jimmy Carter Had the Best Post-Presidency Dec. 30, 2024
WASHINGTON — "Decency. Decency. Decency," President Joe Biden responded when a reporter asked ... Read More
Are These Republicans Mocking Social Conservatives? Mar. 19, 2024
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace was in Washington telling a story about how her "fiance" wanted more ... Read More
John Fetterman's Slovenliness and the Demise of Objective Social Standards Sep. 22, 2023
The United States Senate, once known as the "world's greatest deliberative body," will now permit it... Read More
Decency RIP Jul. 02, 2021
Sen. Mitt Romney appeared on Jake Tapper's CNN show last weekend, and for a few brief minutes, I fel... Read More
2020 Voters Knew What They Wanted Feb. 27, 2021
There has always been something faintly Old Testament about the way we Americans pick our presidents... Read More
Trump's New Assault On Decency Treads New Ground. GOP Nonresponse Doesn't. Dec. 20, 2019
Donald Trump has degraded the norms of American political civility so deeply, for so long, that it's... Read More
Morality Tale at Uber: Reputation Still Counts Jun. 22, 2017
Travis Kalanick helped found and build Uber into a corporate giant worth more than Ford Motor Co. On... Read More
A Coalition of the Principled Center Will Fight Trumpism Feb. 02, 2017
Here's a little story from the bad old days of the New York subway: On seeing a well-dressed man dro... Read More
Ars Gratia Politics Jan. 12, 2017
Meryl Streep made headlines last Sunday when she lambasted President-elect Donald Trump in her accep... Read More
Enough with Hollywood's Pendulous Boobery May. 25, 2016
From runways to red carpets to Instagram and Snapchat, celebrity overexposure is inescapable. We're ... Read More
A Force More Powerful Than Oscar Feb. 25, 2014
I don't have to explain to anyone how television is much more risqué, with some programs being ... Read More
