Jacob Weisberg has written a book, probably a good one, Profiles in Cowardice, that he discusses here with Yascha Mounk. I think they both do a good job analyzing the “second term cave”, when, for the first year, at least, of Trump’s second term, his willingness to do patently illegal things—wrecking AID, for example, and…
Tag: John F Kennedy
Please, Mr. Beinart, try harder
Over at the New York Times, Peter Beinart has a column, “Why Are There So Few Courageous Senators?”, which takes as its text—well, in its first half, anyway—John F. Kennedy’s “famous” book, Profiles in Courage, citing two profiles, “two legendary Southerners, Thomas Hart Benton and Sam Houston, who a century earlier had become pariahs for…