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July 10, 2012 01:19 PM

Further those signs of hope among America’s political class

by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules


  A week or two ago, I wrote a brief column about some signs of hope among America’s political class — a perverse undertaking, you might think, given the tawdry, preening, grasping character of most American politicians of both parties today. But there are, thank God, some exceptions. In that earlier column I mentioned in [...]


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