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Search Results for: david lebedoff
David Lebedoff on why Kerry lost
In “Publishers see bounty in voters’ divisions,” today’s New York Times foreshadows the coming spate of books that will try to explain the results of the election. Earlier this year, my friend David Lebedoff published The Uncivil War. The book bears on the themes played out in the election; I asked David to provide a brief comment and pick a few excerpts that suggest the relevance of the book to »
Who ya gonna call?
The city of Minneapolis is deep into the cultural revolution driving the Democratic Party ever further to the left. The city is run entirely by Democrats. Boy mayor Jacob Frey is a Democrat, as are 11 of 12 current members of the city council. The twelfth — Cam Gordon, Ward 2 — is a member of the Green Party. That’s diversity, Minneapolis style. The current council lineup is displayed here. »
Harvard: Stop Pretending!
As the lawsuit by Asian-American students against Harvard proceeds, our friend David Lebedoff–one of whose degrees is from Harvard, if I remember correctly–weighs in, with Harvard’s motto, Veritas, as his polar star: Karl Marx, who today’s undergraduates think was that curly-headed guy honking at Groucho, proclaimed in his own turbulent time that “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” Well, he had to get something right. But who »
Is CDC Ignoring the Horrifying Zika Virus?
Last summer, my friend David Lebedoff published a thriller titled Buzz, in which a terrorist group found a way to weaponize mosquitoes. (Buzz is available on Amazon, including a Kindle edition for a mere $4.99.) Now, tragically, the nightmare fantasy envisioned in Buzz has been surpassed by reality. The Zika virus is ravaging South America and spreading rapidly. Probably you have heard about it: the virus is spread by mosquito »
Buzz
Our friend David Lebedoff has written a number of books, one or two of which we have plugged here. But now, just in time for the Summer beach market, he has published his first thriller, called Buzz. Buzz is somewhat in the tradition of Jaws, only the deadly predator is a whole lot smaller. Most of us are used to swatting them without much thought: That’s right: mosquitos. The plot »
A message to Mickey Kaus
Yesterday I clicked on an Instapundit link in this one-sentence post: “Mickey Kaus notes a case of eerie prescience.” Clicking on the link, I was transported to a link-filled post stating: “Eerie Prescience, Esquire Division: A lot of what is written about the new smarts-and-skills based elite, and how it is separating off from society–by, among others, Robert Reich, me, David Brooks and now Charles Murray–was anticipated in a ballsy, »
Parallel lives: Orwell and Waugh
In The Same Man: George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh in Love and War, David Lebedoff recurs to the Plutarchian method of parallel lives to illuminate the character and work of his subjects. Orwell and Waugh are Lebedoff’s favorite writers, and outwardly they present a study in contrasts. In their literary work, however, he finds them to be secret sharers. Lebedoff presents the highlights of their lives, concentrating on their marital »
The Same Man
Our good friend David Lebedoff, a lawyer and author, has just published a new book, The Same Man, about two seemingly dissimilar, if not opposite, figures: Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell. Amazon’s description sums up David’s thesis well: Orwell and Waugh were almost alone among their peers in seeing what the future–our time–would bring, and they dedicated their lives to warning us against what was coming: a world of material »
A Plea for Civility
After the Democrats’ thuggish behavior yesterday, this is a good time to talk about civility. While not the most important value that should be promoted by our court system, it’s certainly on the list. Our friend David Lebedoff wrote an interesting column on the need for greater civility in the Supreme Court a month ago for the Minneapolis Star Tribune; it’s no longer available on the Strib’s site, so, with »
Shallow Throat
Our friend David Lebedoff is a prominent Minneapolis attorney and accomplished author, most recently of The Uncivil War: How a New Elite Is Destroying Democracy. David writes: Thank God for a vigilant press. For those who thought the era of tough and fearless investigative journalism was over, take heart! Two intrepid journalists at the NY Times went after U.S. Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts, and this week they hit »
The Uncivil War, Part II
David Brooks is a perceptive and often hilarious social critic, as in his book Bobos In Paradise. Brooks has less background as a political analyst, but during the last Presidential campaign he put his sociological observations to work in columns like this one, titled “Bitter At the Top” and dated June 15, 2004. (The column is archived, and I don’t know whether it will be available to anyone else.) Brooks »
The uncivil election
David Lebedoff is a Minneapolis attorney and long-time friend. David is also the author of my two favorite books on Minnesota politics, The Twenty-First Ballot: A Political Party Struggle in Minnesota and Ward Number 6. Most recently, he is the author of the widely reviewed and admired The Uncivil War: How a New Elite is Destroying Our Democracy, published this fall just before the election. David has now forwarded to »
The Uncivil War
As the Trunk noted a few days ago, our good friend David Lebedoff has just written a book titled The Uncivil War. David sets out to explain the passionate division that characterizes our politics today. As he has for some years, David sees the core of the problem as the ascendancy of what he calls the “New Elite,” a self-appointed group corresponding roughly to what Thomas Sowell refers to as »
Media alert
I’ll be joining Kevin Whalen of Pundit Review on his Pundit Review Radio show this morning during the 11:00 a.m. (Central) hour to discuss Hurricane Dan. Kevin’s show is broadcast over Boston’s business radio station WBIX (AM 1260) and is streamed over the Internet via the link accessible on its site. (Kevin also archives the week’s show on his site.) Dean Esmay of Dean’s World will precede me on the »
Jarndyce v. Jarndyce lives
In the summer of 1994 an Alaska jury awarded $5 billion in punitive damages against Exxon in favor of Alaska fishermen injured by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Glacier Bay. The case had been tried on behalf of the plaintiff fishermen by attorneys with the Minneapolis law firm of Faegre & Benson, most notably Faegre partners Brian O’Neill and (Power Line reader) Jerry Nolting. Fourteen years after the »
