Showing posts with label Jacob Heilbrunn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacob Heilbrunn. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 July 2016

Can Trump Follow Nixon to Victory? (Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest)

William Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard, is profiled in a lengthy piece in the Washington Post. It explains that as Kristol headed toward the Quicken Loans Arena on Monday a commuter told him, “You don’t turn me on.” That’s putting it mildly. Regime change is taking place in the GOP. As Donald Trump prepares to be anointed on Thursday, the anti-Trump rebellion didn’t crash; it never took off in the first place.

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-trump-follow-nixon-victory-17038

Thursday, 26 May 2016

Why Are the Clintons Always Under Investigation? (Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest)

Image: Hillary Clinton in Arizona. Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Why is it that the Bill and Hillary Clinton are seemingly under permanent scrutiny from government investigators? Is it because they are a noble couple being hounded by their enemies? Or is it because they an elastic sense of morality, coupled with the sense of entitlement that the baby boom generation has honed to a new peak of perfection?

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-are-the-clintons-always-under-investigation-16342