Leadership Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me,... Rick Perlstein 22
Revenge Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and... Rick Perlstein 18
Architecture Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's... Rick Perlstein 14
Christmas Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his... Rick Perlstein 16
Computers Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. Rick Perlstein 15
