Jack Schwartz

Jack Schwartz was a former book editor of Newsday and is the author of The Fine Print: My Life as a Deskman.

We’re better than this, Obama used to say when bad things happened. Seventy-four million Trump votes later, though: are we?

Jack Schwartz

American public opinion, strongly supportive of the bombings at the time, has shifted markedly. Which generation has it right?

Jack Schwartz

“The Volga must be our Mississippi,” Hitler declared in his pursuit of Lebensraum and liquidation.

Jack Schwartz

Trump is an uber-nationalist. Sanders is an uber-internationalist. Biden’s sincere love of country contrasts favorably with both.

Jack Schwartz

The beast has long lurked in the bowels of our body politic. It awaited only the Man and the Moment.

Jack Schwartz