1.In the 1950s, the late John King Fairbank, the dean of modern China studies at Harvard, used to tell us graduate students a joke about the allegation that a group of red-leaning foreign service officers and academics the four Johns had “lost” China: John Paton Davies, John Stewart Service, John Carter Vincent, and John King Fairbank himself. What the McCarthyites had
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Jerry Brown, the four-term California governor, three-time presidential candidate and 50-year public servant, is the subject of a new film Jerry Brown: The Disrupter by Emmy Award–winning director Marina Zenovich
Jerry Brown, the four-term California governor, three-time presidential candidate and 50-year public servant, is the subject of a new film Jerry Brown: The Disrupter by Emmy Award–winning director Marina Zenovich
In 1995, Bill Clinton quoted poet Seamus Heaney to encourage peace in Northern Ireland. Last week, Biden performed a sort of listless political karaoke in Jerusalem.
The White House is in crisis. It must be true: Even CNN is saying it. President Joe Biden will be furious when he hears if anyone bothers to tell him. More importantly, Debra Messing, the star of the 90s sitcom Will & Grace, is already furious, according to leaks from a July 6 call between what CNN describes as “White House aides” and “dozens” of celebrity Democrats.