Is ours a declining age? Have the days of great deeds and great virtues, of legends and villains passed us by? I don’t go in for those so sort of dramatics. It’s best to eye those sweeping gestures of historical condemnation with the same suspicion as we would the...
chronological snobbery
The right side of history
I have a journalist friend, Spencer, who has built a reputation as an interviewer of noteworthy persons. He has a way of putting people at their ease. He invites them in at their own pace. He draws people out, often without their knowing it, asking probing, meaningful...