Tag: Hugo Gurdon

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The crackup of extreme social distancing

Hugo Gurdon · April 21, 2020 10:36 pm

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The truth isn’t exciting enough for Trump’s critics

Hugo Gurdon · March 25, 2020 2:46 pm

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Biden: Old man in a new world

Hugo Gurdon · March 11, 2020 8:28 pm

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Bernie Sanders falls at the final hurdle

Hugo Gurdon · February 26, 2020 8:00 pm

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Bill Barr, black sheep, doesn’t suffer fools

Hugo Gurdon · February 20, 2020 12:29 pm

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The Democrats’ electability dilemma

Hugo Gurdon · February 12, 2020 3:15 am

The question is not about legality but about propriety, as is being widely pointed out. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Rice’s grammatical evasion

Hugo Gurdon · April 4, 2017 9:11 pm

On the Capitol steps, President Trump declared that there "was little to celebrate for struggling families," and spoke of "rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation." (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Trump’s dour encouragement, uplifting scowl

Hugo Gurdon · January 26, 2017 7:42 pm

It is a little ludicrous to suggest that anyone's right to free speech is impeded by a law protecting the American flag from incineration, when anyone can lawfully decry the flag as a symbol of tyranny, racist exploitation, hypocrisy, or any other evil for which they think America damnable. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Actually, there is a solid case for protecting the flag against burning

Hugo Gurdon · November 29, 2016 11:30 pm

As the name they've given themselves makes plain, however, the primary argument of the Originalists is that Donald Trump cannot be trusted to preserve the basic features of the Constitution. (White House)

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Originalist sin

Hugo Gurdon · October 17, 2016 10:19 pm

Don't cowboys represent the great American virtues of rugged self-reliance and toughness, of free spiritedness and adventure, of hard work, practical skills, simple pleasures and a no nonsense approach to the human condition? (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Hillary sneers at cowboys. Is that allowed in America?

Hugo Gurdon · October 3, 2016 8:53 pm

In a labored op-ed last month, New York Times columnist Richard Cohen channeled Donald Trump's supposed thoughts about fact and fiction. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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If we don’t want a post-factual world, why do we keep teaching it?

Hugo Gurdon · September 22, 2016 8:31 pm