During her first two years at the University of Pennsylvania, Stephanie Steward became convinced that she was being treated unfairly because of her political views. In her class on diversity and the law, a professor seemed obsessed with the evils of slavery. Another professor’s defense of the estate tax struck her as excessively one-sided. The […]
Richard Just
Richard Just is the deputy editor of The New Republic. From September 2002 until December 2003, he was editor of The American Prospect Online. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 2001, with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. At Princeton, he was the editor-in-chief of The Daily Princetonian.
Richard is also the founder and executive director of The Daily Princetonian Class of 2001 Summer Journalism Program, a ten-day program for students from under-resourced high schools who are planning to pursue careers in journalism. The program is held annually on the campus of Princeton University; its inaugural session took place in August 2002.
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Foreign Currency
It’s America’s loss that British Prime Minister Tony Blair happened to be born on the other side of the ocean. As he made clear in a truly remarkable speech before Congress last Thursday, Blair understands far better than any contemporary American politician the appropriate role of U.S. power in the world. Not only would Blair […]
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Cerebral Vortex
Over the years, a lot of people have called The West Wing — the NBC drama that concluded its fourth season this week — a liberal fantasy. To be sure, the show’s politics are explicitly liberal, but those politics have always been secondary to the program’s central message: that intelligence and moral purpose are the […]
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February Sky
TAP Online joins all Americans in mourning the loss of the seven astronauts this weekend aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Why do these seven deaths affect us as a nation so deeply? Everyone has his or her own theory, and many were eloquently recited this weekend. My preferred explanation can be found in something published […]
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Two Speeches
President George W. Bush delivered two State of the Union addresses last night: an unconvincing recitation of platitudes about supply-side economics followed by a compelling — even grand — articulation of America’s role in the world. In doing so, he presented Democrats with a difficult but not unsolvable puzzle for the next two years: how […]
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Editor’s Note
With the new year approaching — and TAP Online in the midst of a one-week vacation — it seems an appropriate time to provide our readers with an update on what our Web site has accomplished during the last few months, and where we hope to take it in the months to come. I took […]
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Editor’s Note
TAP Online wishes all our readers a Happy Thanksgiving. We’ll resume publication on Monday, Dec. 2. In the meantime, check out three of our latest pieces, one from the print magazine and two from the online edition: Dems in the Dumps: Harold Meyerson demystifies their defeat and charts their comeback. Native American TV: PBS finally […]
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Moral Imperative
I voted for Al Gore in 2000 at least in part because of his foreign-policy platform. Among the three major tickets, his seemed to stand most clearly for a program of American forward engagement in world affairs. Both Gore and his running mate, Joe Lieberman, had enthusiastically supported every American military action since the end […]
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Editor’s Note
Dear TAP Online Readers: Today we are pleased to unveil a redesigned version of our weblog, Tapped — the first of what I hope will be many improvements to The American Prospect Online that will take place in the near future. Tapped, as most of you by now know, is updated frequently during the day […]
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The Emptiness and the Anger
The drama may have been at the Washington Monument on Saturday afternoon — but the progress was taking place at the other end of the National Mall. While the usual protesters with the usual assortment of messages that ran the gamut from the vaguely coherent to the unbecomingly spiteful took over the lawn just south […]
