Carl Bernstein, the <em>Washington Post</em> reporter who, in investigating the Watergate scandal, helped to bring down a corrupt presidency, was a journalistic prodigy.He entered the profession with the old <em>Washington Star</em> while ...
Human suffering is very difficult to watch.Yet, as long as it exists on my television – I somehow can’t turn it off or turn away.I feel obligated to root for the victims of bloodshed at the hands of a seeming madman as if I have a stake in the madness.I do not. Not directly.Even on the ...
“History,” Barbara Tuchman concluded, “is the unfolding of miscalculation.”Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the unexpectedly stiff Ukrainian resistance, questions have been asked about miscalculations made by Russian ruler Vladimir Putin. Did he miscalculate both the Ukrainian ...