To terrorize an audience, stimulate its imagination to work overtime. Hitchcock understood this—we never do see a knife pierce flesh in Psycho‘s famous shower scene. Similarly, conservative auteurs ...

Last night at the Republican National Convention, neurosurgeon and former candidate Ben Carson stole the spotlight by connecting Hillary Clinton to Lucifer. Clinton wrote her senior college thesis on ...

I have to share Dana Milbank’s sentiment in his open love letter to Newt Gingrich this week. It would be a real shame to lose Newt (and he thinks the liberal east coast media elite hates him! Au ...

Now that Newt Gingrich, newly amplified as a Presidential candidate, is regularly using Saul Alinsky as a club to beat Obama, the conservative obsession with the long-dead community organizer has gone ...

"The community organizer in a free society must be a multiple schizoid," Saul D. Alinsky, organizer extraordinaire, said in a lecture last night at Hunt Hall. Alinsky explained that the community ...

The black ghetto, with "white liberals" as allies, must organize in order to assure progress, Saul D. Alinsky, founder and executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, said last night.

Pam Dickler was at work Monday in New York City when the phone rang. It was a guy calling from a 773 number, and it was about the play she’d directed back in Chicago for the Terrapin Theatre in 1998, ...

Saul Alinsky is a name most people don't know, so why does Newt Gingrich drop Alinsky's name at every opportunity without explaining who he is? Because it is not what the Republican presidential ...

In the Feb. 5 Appeal-Democrat, Anthony Matulich lamented that two few Americans know the background of President Barack Obama's mentor, Saul Alinsky. I am quite aware of who Mr. Alinsky was — he was a ...

The weird stuff in Idaho politics is starting to make sense. For a while it hasn’t. Idaho’s dominant party, measured by candidates elected, has been behaving in ways unrecognizable to long-time party ...