The golfer was sincere but not authentic as he staged his confessions for the camera – in a tradition that goes right back to Rousseau’s invention of the confessional mode

Politicians are gaining ground with Texas voters by blaming the federal government for all national ills. For Tea Partiers here, Washington appears a distant, almost foreign ruler

Tony Judt’s pupose was not to tell coherent but untruthful stories of the past. It was to get down what happened in all its confusion and ambiguity