On Wednesday, as debt deal talks continued to consume most politicians inside the beltway, the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls stepped away from politics as usual toward the politics of the future — a Twitter debate. With all of the quoting (read: retweeting), finger-pointing (read: @mentioning) and following (read: following) inherent in any political debate, the Republican contenders and their followers [...]
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s speech this past week left Penn with lots of food for thought. Is it appropriate to ask a politician personal questions? How should a campus newspaper avoid and recognize bias in its coverage of political events? And, of course, how did Gingrich’s arguments measure up in the current political environment? But in the week following [...]
Update: Ten minutes after I posted this, the DP posted their article. Pretty straight-ahead coverage. Penn has some big names and big connections, and it’s always gratifying to see them come together and discuss important things. The names at the David and Lyn Silfen Forum yesterday were Amy Gutmann (moderating), John Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, John DiIulio, Andrea Mitchell, and [...]
I am not as perturbed about Snoop Dogg’s playing Fling as the people who’ve been inviting you to the “petition to revise selection criteria.” But I do think that they have every right to complain. Dennie Zastrow, however, writing in today’s DP, takes a slightly different stance. I hope I’m not spoiling the ending by quoting the closing paragraph: Ultimately, [...]
Somewhere in a home or apartment in the Capital, a leading conservative ponders changes to established policy. He faces great pressure to offer something new and dynamic. The status quo has run dry and as he squeezes his alabaster hands he longs for an answer. He knows that he must adapt, and his party must to if it is to [...]
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