Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Hart Rich, Jr.is an American essayist, op-ed columnist and writer notable for having held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth2 June 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.
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Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.
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History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
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One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.
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'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.
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No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. But many masters of the old universe, including quite possibly his chief economic adviser, can't recognize that the world has changed or should change.
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always on tap, night and day, weekdays and weekends, to laugh, to applaud, to love.
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This play is a searing inside account of what white racism does to its victims, ... and it floats on the same authentic artistry as the blues music it celebrates.
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After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.
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There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.
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While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.
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There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.
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When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.
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It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.