Coco avant Chanel

The Supreme Justice Potter Stewart famously said, “I know pornography when I see it.” Watching Coco avant Chanel I became less sure that I could identify in all instances of prostitution when I see it. Early in her adult life, Coco tracks an aristocrat to his country mansion and then exchanges sex for food, lodging, image [Read More]

Peggy Noonan executes Don Rumsfeld

I was impressed with Peggy Noonan when she—although a Republican partisan—called Sarah Palin’s nomination ridiculous. Her commitment to truth and integrity made her write this scathing review of Donald Rumsfeld memoirs in the WSJ. The One That Got Away Memoirist Rumsfeld seems to forget why we went to Afghanistan. I like Donald Rumsfeld. I’ve always thought he image [Read More]

The New Humanism

David Brooks continues to lay out in the NY Times his argument for a new humanism that tries to understand how human beings flourish collectively. Over the course of my career, I’ve covered a number of policy failures. When the Soviet Union fell, we sent in teams of economists, oblivious to the lack of social trust image [Read More]