LAST WEDNESDAY, COMMONWEALTH recorded its weekly podcast interview, The Codcast. Michael Jonas and Bruce Mohl asked the questions. The guest was Senate President Stanley Rosenberg. The podcast was posted the next day, with a short summary of the 24-minute conversation featured in the Daily Download that directly quotes several of Rosenberg’s comments. Later that day, […]
Ralph Whitehead
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The great divide
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960 – 2010By Charles MurrayNew York, Crown Forum, 407 pages Reviewed by Ralph Whitehead, Jr in the america of 1960, writes Charles Murray in Coming Apart, the lives of white people with a bachelor’s degree or better and the lives of white people with a high school diploma […]
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News cuts tilt coverage toward upscale
It is now widely recognized that daily newspapers, amid the upheaval that is occurring in the journalism business, have been cutting back on the origination of serious news coverage. What is less widely appreciated, however, is that the axe has been falling more heavily on coverage of matters affecting roughly the lower two-thirds of the […]
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Looking Back at emThe Man in the Gray Flannel Suitem
Occasionally, a work has a title that takes on a meaning that outruns the work’s actual content. Often, the added meaning is merely a plausible variation of the original. Sometimes it can be directly at odds with the original. For example, a pair of scholars recently wrote that Middletown is a study of Levittown, New […]