Whenever a conservative critic of the media gets worked up, he’s sure to mention the “Lichter-Rothman study.” That study shows that reporters are liberal and unreligious. Rothman and the Lichters are obviously conservative, and the research for The Media Elite was funded by conservatives like Richard Mellon Scaife, which makes their scientific-sounding scholarship a bit […]
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Posted inJuly 1984
On Political Books
What’s next for Ed Koch? Cover boy, that’s what. The ever-visible Ed has never been more ubiquitous than in the months since publication of his controversial autobiography, Mayor. He’s hit the top of the nationwide best-sellers list, he’s done guest spots on such shows as “Gimme a Break” and ‘All My Children,’ he’s milked the […]
Posted inMay 1969
Books: The Agony of the American Left by Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch’s The Agony of the American Left [Alfred A. Knopf, 224 pages, $4.95] is a useful book which attempts to deal with the intellectual and political failure of the Left in America. He begins by asking the question invariably asked by the old of the young, “What’s your plan? What’s your program?” His answer […]
