By Jan Herman When 1984 came around smack in the middle of the rose-tinted Reagan era, many in the commentariat had a field day noting that George Orwell, for all his genius, had overstated his case. The future he’d warned of in “1984” simply hadn’t come to pass. Yeah, right. Thinking of Bill Moyers this morning, it occurred […]
REPORT FROM THE LAND OF IS
By JAN HERMAN The wizards from the Land of Is spelled out What We Stand For over the weekend in a stellar gathering at New York University’s Skirball Center, convened by the New Democracy Project and The Nation. They didn’t need to take their cues from Paul Krugman, the economist and liberal New York Times […]
My Checkered Career
I’ve been a staff writer covering arts and culture at the Los Angeles Times, a reporter and movie reviewer at The Daily News in New York, a reporter and columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times, a senior editor/producer and the theater critic for MSNBC.com, and a fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. […]