Mr. Carpenter, Ph.D., is an HNN columnist. He is working on a book about the history of American demagogues. A few days ago Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued two statements regarding the ...

No thanks to Rivers fair weather friends led by the likes of Ikenga Ugochinyere, an Imo member of the House of ...

Presented by Mint Theater Company, this mildly entertaining political satire tells the tale of Peter Garside, who with the ...

Men we thought would be real leaders of the people. And they spoke, and spoke, and soon said all they had to say, became mere windbags trading on a reputation. … The itch to speak is like the ...

The gut decision that journalists have to make is whether they want to be regarded as professionals with honor or merely as pickup teams of scribblers and windbags.” - Sydney Schanberg “It is not ...

Long ago, when the Victorians were regarded as moralistic old windbags, Edward Lear, who could hardly have been less ‘serious’, was bound to seem a peripheral figure, and found himself duly exiled to ...