(Scott Johnson) Joe Morganstern’s Wall Street Journal review of the new Batman movie was published in Friday’s paper and was obviously written in advance of the Aurora shootings. Morganstern appended the following “note about the perils of being a movie critic in the age of polarized fandom” to his review: I may have saved my life without realizing it by liking “The Dark Knight Rises
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(Scott Johnson) The Wall Street Journal published a book review by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey yesterday. Judge Mukasey (as I will refer to him here) is one great American. He was the trial judge in the case of the Blind... Read Post
Nate Silver kicked up a minor fuss last Friday with yet another NY Times column deriding the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan. There’s less than meets the eye to the specifics of this particular dustup, but what’s interesting is S... Read Post
(Scott Johnson) Daniel Johnson reviewed David Clay Large’s Munich 1972 in the weekend Review section of the Wall Street Journal. The review is titled Terror at the games.” Johnson salutes the book, just published yesterday, as repre... Read Post