Walter Lippmann’s “U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic” (1943) has long been a favorite book of mine, not least for its remarkable introduction. “I am ashamed,” Lippmann wrote of his ...

To James Thurber, in a 1943 New Yorker cartoon, Walter Lippmann was the object of respectful humor: a wife looks up from a newspaper and tells her husband, "Lippmann scares me this morning." To Judge ...

Walter Lippmann circa 1930. His influential newspaper column, 'Today and Tomorrow' was syndicated from early 1930s to the 1960s, and was awarded Pulitzer Prizes in 1958 and 1962. (Everett ...

Walter Lippmann, Liberty and the News (Princeton Univ. Press 2007)(with essays by Ronald Steel & Sidney Blumenthal) 114 pp. $21.95 When I began to form my political consciousness in the early ...

The world has always been an uncertain place, and this is no less true today. After the collapse of communism in the 1990s, there was confidence that democracy had won and the market economy had shown ...

Walter Lippmann complained in 1919 that American journalists were doing the work of “preachers, revivalists, prophets and agitators.” They reported the news “by entirely private and unexamined ...

One of the benefits of moving my office from a top corner of the Poynter Institute downstairs to its library is the serendipitous discovery of particular books. In a back storage room, I found myself ...

Other countries might have produced such a journalist, but only in the U. S. could he exist today. In Germany or Italy he would be in prison or silent; in Russia, dead; in France, a partisan among ...

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was the most influential American journalist of the 20th century. Born into one of the German-Jewish "our crowd" families of New York City, he began his career as a cub ...