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In the #MeToo era that we live in, there are certain journalists who have a lot of explaining and reflecting to do. Near the top of the list: Bill Clinton-era reporters who have made cringe-worthy comments excusing the president. It was 23 years ago this week that Time contributor Nina Burleigh told then-Washington Post writer Howard Kurtz: “I'd be happy to give [Clinton] ...

We live in an age of cultural disorder, where to point a finger at the absurdities of radical Islam is to be branded a racist, a fascist or a bigot. This timely and important book would probably not have been published 10 years ago, but its relevance is bracing. Michael Burleigh's theme: the moral squalor, intellectual poverty and psychotic nature of terrorist organisations, from the Fenians of the mid-19th century to today's jihadists - the latter group, especially, being composed of unstable males of conspicuously limited abilities and imagination, and yet who pose "an existential threat to the whole of...

What has happened to journalism? It used to be that a reporter sought the true story. It was the story and not political agenda that was important. Isn't that what journalism professors teach in journalism schools? Unfortunately, the mainstream press, always in the lefties' corner, is blatantly and unapologetically cheering for the RATS in broad daylight. It is fine to have an opinion, but label the piece as op-ed rather than labeling it as a news story. That is what the left does every day in the stories and in deceptive headlines. It has only been a few days, but...