Michael Goodwin is the chief political columnist for the New York Post and a regular contributor to Fox News and Fox Business. Before joining the Post in 2009, he was the political columnist for the New York Daily News. Prior to that, he worked for the New York Times for 16 years. Goodwin is the...
In Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises,” one character asks, “How did you go bankrupt?” The other replies, “Two ways: gradually, and then suddenly.” According to Michael Goodwin, the decline of one of the world’s most famous newspapers could be described the same way. Goodwin, chief political columnist at the New York Post, gave...
When the New York Times released an article this weekend detailing another allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, they forgot to mention one key fact: the alleged victim could not recall whether the event even happened. The piece documented a third allegation, made by Deborah Ramirez, of Kavanaugh committing sexual misconduct during his college...
Perhaps the most iconic scene in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is when John Proctor, facing the gallows for alleged involvement in witchcraft, refuses to save his life by signing a false confession. When pressed, Proctor cries out, “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign...
As someone who came to Hillsdale College unaware of the school’s conservative leanings, I was at first shocked to see Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher monumentalized on the quad. The New York Times reporter Erik Eckholm told me he felt the same way the night before he left Hillsdale. Eckholm said this as he sat...