
Barton Swaim
Editorial Page Writer at The Wall Street Journal
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Barton Swaim
Did the president do something requiring the vice president to affirm his loyalty? It wasn’t the cleverest pronouncement to emerge from the Trump-Musk feud, but it was, to my mind, the most absorbing. I refer to Vice President JD Vance’s two-sentence tweet: “President Trump has done more than any person in my lifetime to earn the trust of the movement he leads.
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4 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Barton Swaim
Hyperactive, magnetic and eager to debate: William F. Buckley wasn’t very easily forgotten. Sam Tanenhaus is the author of a superb biography of the onetime communist mole and later conservative journalist Whittaker Chambers. Soon after the publication of that book in 1997, word circulated that Mr. Tanenhaus had been chosen by William F. Buckley Jr. to write his own biography.
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1 month ago |
jp.wsj.com | Barton Swaim
サウスカロライナ遊説の際、彼が任に堪えないことは誰の目にも明らかだった 民主党候補が敗北した2024年米大統領選について、同党の幹部やメディア番組の司会者が必死に犯人捜しをしているのを見るのは、つらいが愉快でもある。2期目を目指し、それを務めるのに十分な知的鋭敏さと体力があると断言したジョー・バイデン氏に責任があるとの見方で、バイデン家以外の誰もが一致している。しかし、スタッフが真実を隠し、世間に知られないようにしたのだろうか。議会などの場所にいた民主党幹部には、米国民に対して、バイデン氏の再選に向けた取り組みを支持できないと公然と表明する義務があったのだろうか。...
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Barton Swaim
I saw him campaign in South Carolina. Anybody with eyes and ears could tell he wasn’t up to the job. It is painful but also amusing to watch high-ranking Democrats and media personalities struggle to find culprits for their loss in 2024. Everybody but the Biden family agrees that the fault is Joe Biden’s for insisting that he possessed sufficient mental acuity and physical strength to seek and serve a second term. But did staffers hide the truth from the world?
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Barton Swaim
The Supreme Court made legalized sports gambling possible in many states. Lawmakers neglected to think through the consequences. “There have always been Americans driven to ruin by gambling. But never have so many been driven to ruin so easily, and never has government done so much to enable them to gamble.” So writes Jonathan D. Cohen in “Losing Big,” an incisive and efficiently written account of the slow rise and sudden ubiquity of legal sports gambling in America.
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