Author Archives: Spencer Wolff

Despite John Kerry’s respectable performance in the first presidential debate, there was still this nagging doubt that for all his intellectual superiority, his nuance and his substantive grasp of the issues, his ”win” may yet amount to a Pyrrhic victory. George W. Bush’s implacable rhetoric sledgehammered on as usual, for the most part just as »

There has been a lot of furor and debate recently over the question of gay marriage, and the topic seems poised to become a crucial election-year issue. Respondents to polls about their views on this subject tend to fall into three camps: There are the so-called “extremists” who demand gay marriage, with the same rights, »