When asked which candidate is more honest, more consistent, and more willing to lead, voters prefer President Bush.
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The Green fever that swept over this nation, starting in the 1970s, has begun to subside a bit. [...] The strange new respect for Vietnam veterans is temporary, only a brevet promotion, the result of partisan opportunity and media obsession. Those who hanker for that sort of attention should relish their fifteen minutes of respectability. [...] In this book the significance of the movement of the Right, its fissions and resultant lesions, its successes and resultant transformations, its disavowal of its classical liberal root, is laid bare. [...] David Brock's new book is so full of distortions, half truths and inaccuracies that it could justifiably be called a screed. [...] President Reagan believed in freedom, and he knew that if the words of freedom could reach the hearts and minds of those under communist rule, freedom would prevail. [...] It is easy to forget today that Ronald Reagan was reviled by many, many people in the 1980s, most of them liberals who had neither his courage nor his optimism in facing down the great issues of our time. [...] Lionel Trilling saw literature as a corrective to politics, offering a more subtle and realistic account of human existence. [...] The mystery of faith is not comprehended by reason alone; it is rooted in love and hope, even some doubt, and it offers us insight into truths that not only enrich but transcend human experience. [...] |
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