Michael Moore represents the worst of twenty-first century media culture. He looks at the hot topics, sniffs out potential for conflict and goes out to ambush ordinary Americans with pointed questions. Feeling satisfied when their stunned ignorance is caught on tape, he begins the publicity for his latest muckraking conquest. This will include preaching his...

The Four Seasons. Everest. Charlie Trotter’s. And now Bartlett has received the showy reviews usually assigned to eateries that cater to a more mature clientele. In the eyes of The Wall Street Journal, it was time to analyze what undergraduates get out of their meal plans, with tuitions skyrocketing yearly and students growing more and...

It was a front-page headline for sure. A sitting senator, engaged in a tight re-election race, killed in a plane crash along with his wife and oldest daughter. The news immediately shocked political insiders, who calculated the effect Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone’s death would have on the makeup of the Senate next year. It also...