Gabriel Wildau

Lately public discourse has taken on a Hegelian structure: Thesis: The United States will triumph overwhelmingly in the war with Iraq. The conflict will be short. Iraqis will welcome us as liberators. Antithesis: The advance to Baghdad from the south has stalled. Resistance is stiffer than expected. Iraqis don’t like us. In the old days, […]

Presidential hopeful and former Gov. Howard Dean (D-Vt.) appeared on Meet the Press yesterday to argue against war with Iraq. Unfortunately, when host Tim Russert confronted the candidate with some of his own past remarks, Dean seemed to stumble: RUSSERT: [In your speech last week] you talked about the president using a unilateral attack against […]

There’s good news and bad news from this past Sunday morning. The good news is someone finally spoke up eloquently in defense of the Democratic Party’s soul. “I think Al Gore was exactly right to go out and make a campaign in favor of people and against powerful interests who stood in their way . […]

Brit Hume and the Fox News Channel removed all doubt Sunday morning about the meaning of their oft-repeated slogan, “fair and balanced.” Watching Hume chat breezily with Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill on Fox News Sunday at 9 a.m., then watching Tim Russert drill O’Neill on NBC’s Meet the Press at 10:30 a.m. was a revelation […]

Corporate Scandals: Apart from a weak accounting bill the House passed in April and the Justice Department’s successful lawsuit against Arthur Andersen, we haven’t seen much legal or legislative fallout yet from the wave of corporate scandals. That could change this week as the Senate votes (later today) on the Sarbanes accounting bill, which is […]