Walter Lippmann

Aug 18, 2024 | buttondown.com | David Swanson |Walter Lippmann |H.L. Menken |W.A. Warn

August 18, 2024 By David SwansonWelcome back to Culture Club, the weekly feature where Talia and I discuss our preoccupations—what we’ve been thinking about, reading, watching or playing. BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBERIf you’ve been following the conventional wisdom over the first half of the year, you’ve no doubt read that 2024 is just 1968 all over again: campus protests, assassination attempts, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

May 8, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Walter Lippmann

This essay sounds unlike the Walter Lippmann—that granite fixture on the opinion раgе—who became so well known. There’s not a hint of any conversations with foreign ministers or senior senators. His tone has none of his famous detachment. His prose explodes with the passion of a young man. Before Herbert Croly discovered Walter Lippmann, he had just spent a brief tour working for George Lunn, the Socialist mayor of Schenectady, New York.