In 1982 Ronald Steel won the National Book Award for his voluminous biography of the long-lived public intellectual Walter Lippmann (1889–1974), whose career as a journalist and author of middlebrow ...
Walter Lippmann’s “U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic” (1943) has long been a favorite book of mine, not least for its remarkable introduction. “I am ashamed,” Lippmann wrote of his ...
On a recent Saturday morning, after pursuing my bookshelf for a thoughtful read, I pulled out Walter Lippmann’s “Public Philosophy.” Its faded cover and dog-eared pages were a reminder of the many ...