Insight Straight By Jim Tuck “A Bleeding-Heart Liberal” Looks at Jane Fonda Though the Vietnam War has been over for several decades, one of its burning issues was dramatically revived in a recent book titled Aid and Comfort. The authors, Henry and Erica Holzer, argue that Jane Fonda should have been tried for treason
The Maligned Art Of Namedropping By Jim Tuck Try to remember the last time you heard someone favorably referred to as a name-dropper. It’s a melancholy fact that on any scale of social approval the term ranks somewhere between “pickpocket” and “con man.” Attempting to cast light where heat has so long prevailed, allow
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Some Ruminations On Proust By Jim Tuck Magnicide is defined as the killing of a prominent person, usually, though not always, by an obscure someone anxious to have his or her brief fling with fame. In literature, we have the spectacle of a magnicide that kills not persons but reputations. Tolstoy claimed Shakespeare was
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