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Posts Tagged ‘Rupert Murdoch

Current Looks Are Deceiving

September 15, 2011

“Americans will flirt with and hear out any voice or opinion but will at last tend toward moderation.        My last post told why Romney, at campaign’s end, will be the Republican nominee, and I stick with that prediction.     Just a little over a month ago, Michelle Bachmann was the flavor of the […]

Crime Pays: Imagine That

July 27, 2011

    There was a time, we thought, that the good guys got the bad guys. Justice, it seemed, was swift and fair. Punishment, we imagined, fit the crime. The cell door slammed and that was that.     Where did it end? With corrupt or lenient judges? With the dumbing-down of jury panels? No, it had […]

Murdoch: Or, When They Do It to Themselves

July 13, 2011

    I love dead poets, and dead philosophers too. Thank goodness for liberal arts educations and their classical referents. They won’t make you rich like an MBA does, but they help to make important sense of the world.     Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is among the truest of insights: people and institutions that have the […]