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James Bowman

James Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The author of “Honor: A History,” he is a movie critic for the American Spectator and the media critic for the New Criterion.

Absurd Anti-Trump Republicans Abet Democrats’ Naked Exercise of Power

Commentary Although I am very willing to believe that the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is ...

Viewpoints February 11, 2021
The Realities Obscured by the Media’s Concentration on ‘Reality’

Commentary The New York Times headline on Jan. 30 on an article by Adam Goldman, Katie Benner, and ...

Viewpoints February 5, 2021
The Democrats’ Incapacity for Irony and the ‘Threat to Democracy’

Commentary Talking of irony, as I did recently (see “The Irony in Biden’s Call for Unity” in The ...

Viewpoints January 29, 2021
The Irony in Biden’s Call for Unity

Commentary The words “irony” and “ironic,” not to mention “ironically,” are often to be heard in the mouths ...

Viewpoints January 21, 2021
‘Insurrection’ Redefined in the Revolutionary Dictionary

Commentary “Insurrection” is the name that Democrats have settled upon to describe the “high crime” President Donald Trump ...

Viewpoints January 15, 2021
Opinion: After Crying ‘Wolf!’ for Four Years, Can the Media Be Believed Now?

Commentary After crying “Wolf!” for four years, can the media be believed now? Let’s see. What’s in the ...

Viewpoints January 7, 2021
Rupert Murdoch and the Grip of Fashion’s Tyranny

Commentary In 2019, when I was puzzled by the hostile attitude taken by The Times of London toward ...

Viewpoints January 3, 2021
The Media’s Misuse of Language Always Has a Political Purpose

Commentary Recently in this space I wrote about the common misuse of the word “scandal” (see “Look to ...

Viewpoints December 24, 2020
Look to the Media for Greatest Scandal of Our Lifetime

Commentary According to a headline in The American Conservative, it was “The Greatest Scandal of Our Lifetime.” How ...

Viewpoints December 18, 2020
Media Argue in Circles to Accuse Trump of Constructing Reality

Commentary In the media, reality is always custom-built to political order. “When other presidents leave office, they build ...

Viewpoints December 11, 2020
This Election Puts Corruption of the Media on Full Display

Commentary If any good comes out of this seriously compromised election, it may lie in the perfect illustration ...

Viewpoints December 6, 2020
In a World Where Tribal Loyalties Trump Moral Standards, There’s No Such Thing as Hypocrisy

Commentary Way back in the mists of time—say around the turn of the century—hypocrisy was the worst of ...

Viewpoints November 20, 2020
Zombified Words Leave Us Only Able to Bray at One Another

Commentary So far as I know, I’ve never met Kerrie Gillis, but I get an e-mail from her ...

Viewpoints November 12, 2020
Who Could Believe the Election Tainted by Fraud? The Media Could

Commentary Writing in the London Daily Telegraph, on Nov. 5, Tom Harris deplored President Trump’s promise to contest ...

Viewpoints November 5, 2020
Good and Evil: Now Everyone Knows Where to Find Them

Commentary You don’t have to be as old as I am to remember a time when the meritocracy ...

Viewpoints October 29, 2020
How the Media Continue to Influence Public Opinion After Losing the Public’s Trust

Commentary No one can say for sure how many people have discontinued their subscriptions to The New York ...

Viewpoints October 22, 2020
The Scandal of the Media’s Reporting on Scandals, Both Fake and Real

Commentary When is a scandal not a scandal? When the media says so. Last week, the big story ...

Viewpoints October 16, 2020
The Narrative Imperative and the Flies That Make Up the News

Commentary Here’s the news of this year’s election campaign: Both candidates in the vice-presidential debate stuck to their ...

Viewpoints October 9, 2020
On Trump’s Decorum and the Media’s Lies

Commentary The world agrees that Tuesday night’s so-called debate between President Trump and former Vice President Biden was ...

Viewpoints October 1, 2020
Chewing the ‘Could’: From Climate Change to Breonna Taylor

Commentary Here’s a headline from the Sept. 23 Washington Post: “Partisan fight over Supreme Court could affect issues ...

Viewpoints September 24, 2020
The Madness of the Media as They Consider Trump

Commentary Some years ago, long before anyone outside of Donald Trump’s immediate family thought of him as a ...

Viewpoints September 19, 2020