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The New York Times on Japan: Continuing fallout

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Eamonn Fingleton

Expert observers Holstein, Fallows, and Baker express their dismay at the Times’s miscues. I am not alone in challenging the New York Times’s recent account of a “disheartened” Japan. William J. Holstein, former president of the Overseas Press Club of America … Continue reading →

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The wrong-way Corrigans who engineered the U.S. train wreck

Posted on December 24, 2008 by Eamonn Fingleton

America’s decline counts as probably the most precipitate in history. So who’s to blame? America’s ideology-blinded media have a lot to answer for. As recently as 1965, when I started college, America had the world at its feet. Its decline … Continue reading →

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Finance is too important to be left to Wall Street’s self-interest

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Eamonn Fingleton

Getting the American economy back on solid ground will require new financial regulations. Goldman Sachs alums aren’t the people for the job. [As published in the American Conservative on October 20, 2008.] As bewildered Americans survey the wreckage of their … Continue reading →

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