shelby steele

The Wisdom of the Depressed

April 11, 2011 politics

As I mentioned on a Ricochet podcast last week, I have an annoying habit of holding commentators responsible for their predictions.  If a sports writer tells me the Red Sox are going to the series, and we get to the end of the season and they’re under .500, I remember it and, well, I’m a [...]

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Obama: Ideologue or Empty Man?

February 6, 2010 politics

Because of the mainstream news media’s scandalous abandonment of their responsibilities during the last election, Barack Obama took the highest office in the land as a largely unexamined man,  little more than a hologram onto which our press, corrupted by political conformity, projected its hopes and dreams.  Since then, those of us whose national pooch [...]

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