politics
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Edward R. Murrow’s Powerful Buchenwald Broadcast
Eighty years ago this afternoon, legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow delivered one of the most important broadcasts of the 20th century, a report on his visit three days earlier to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. It took Murrow, as cool a journalist as they come, that long to process the horror. This 9-minute broadcast Continue reading
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Pushing a noun against a verb
“You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something.” “Inherit the Wind” is one of the great plays of the ’50s and one of the great movies of 1960. It’s kind of stunning that it didn’t win anything at the Academy Awards. Putatively about the 1920s Scopes Monkey Trial, it’s also Continue reading
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The West Wing bipartisanship
“The West Wing” lost me after its second year, when my personal and work life became much more complicated and busy. But I got a chance to see the last year and it was fascinating to see how it was being transitioned. I would have liked to see the first term of President Santos. And Continue reading
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Nows and Forevers 