Q&As
Q&A: Tucker Carlson, before he became King of Cable — and GOP presidential timber
Tucker Carlson of Fox News has risen to the top of the cable news heap to become the most-watched, most-hated and most influential commentator in our politically fractured and deeply divisive country. He’s so popular, now he’s being touted as a Republican presidential candidate for 2024. The Washington Post, his former colleagues at MSNBC and…
Read MoreQ&A: Fred Singer, the proud godfather of global warning denial, dies at 95
In 2005 I did one of my weekly Q&As with smart, important, interesting or newsworthy people with Fred Singer, the brilliant scientist and reliable critic of climate change and the idiocy and hysteria associated with it. Global warming is always a hot topic in liberal media circles, where the political and scientific consensus is that…
Read MoreA vintage Q&A with Ethan Nadelmann, the tireless and sainted reformer who beat the drug warriors — so far
in 1999 when I interviewed anti-drug-war warrior Ethan Nadelmann for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he was optimistic about reforming America’s hideous drug laws when he really had no right to be. In 2009 when I interviewed Nadelmann about America’s war on drugs and the prospects of the government losing it, things were looking rosier for the…
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