Walter Lippmann was at one time the most influential American writer on politics and world affairs. His writing career spanned the time period from the Progressive Era to the middle of the Cold War.

In 1982 Ronald Steel won the National Book Award for his voluminous biography of the long-lived public intellectual Walter Lippmann (1889–1974), whose career as a journalist and author of middlebrow ...

On a recent Saturday morning, after pursuing my bookshelf for a thoughtful read, I pulled out Walter Lippmann’s “Public Philosophy.” Its faded cover and dog-eared pages were a reminder of the many ...

Walter Lippmann, call your office. Last week the Biden Pentagon submitted its budget request for fiscal year 2025. If executed as written, the request would shrink the U.S. armed forces at a time when ...

The article is here; the Introduction: In the last months of 1919, a year in which a pandemic had killed hundreds of thousands and the nation's cities had been marred by racial pogroms and mob ...

If you had told a newspaperman six months ago that the Editor of the New York World was going traveling with a Morgan Partner and that when he got back he would write editorials for the New York ...

Walter Lippmann, who lived from 1889 to 1974, was an early and prime example of the public intellectual as pundit commenting on news of the day. Lippmann, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote a syndicated ...

A PREFACE TO MORALS—Walter Lippmann—Macmillan ($2.50). MID-CHANNEL—An American Chronicle—Ludwig Lewisohn—Harpers ($3.50). In the chorus of U. S. philosophizing, somewhere between the deep notes of ...

At first glance, few people would think of Walter Lippmann as a great detective. Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes’s (and far more normal habits), he ...

Can Walter Lippmann wipe out bugs? Possibly. After observing 1,500 tiny European Pyrrhocoris apterus bugs, Czechoslovakia’s Dr. Karel Slama and Harvard’s Dr. Carroll M. Williams report that a chemical ...

In April 1912, Walter Lippmann was feeling down. Four months earlier, he had taken what seemed to him like an exciting postcollegiate political gig: assistant to George Lunn, the newly elected ...