Category Archives: Dwight D. Sutherland, Jr.
Sutherland: History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme!
The foregoing quote is attributed to Mark Twain… I’ve always understood it to mean that some events reoccur in history with spooky similarity, even though they are not exactly alike in all the particulars. See if you can tell … Continue reading
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Tagged Dwight Sutherland, Ronald Reagan, Sam Brownback
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Sutherland: Something I Will Miss About The Star
With a number of insiders predicting the imminent demise of the Kansas City Star, I have to confess there’s one feature I will really miss if it goes… I know I date myself by this, but I’ll miss the obituaries. … Continue reading
Sutherland: When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Michelle Johnson, the Kansas City Star’s ‘Diversity Diva’, was able to put succinctly into words an idea that I had struggled with for some time… Johnson drew on her experience as an employment lawyer to explain why some types of … Continue reading
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Tagged Dwight Sutherland, Kansas City Star, Michelle Johnson
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Sutherland: ‘Mad Men’ Finale or Snark Hunting, Part Deux
In a couple of weeks, the last season of “Mad Men,” AMC’s award winning drama series, will begin… Greeted with both critical and popular acclaim when it debuted in 2007, the show has gone from strength to strength and Matthew … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Mendolsohn, Dwight Sutherland, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner
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Sutherland: An Evening to Forget with The New Yorker’s George Packer
George Packer, long time writer for the New Yorker, was this year’s Carolyn Cockefair Benton Lecturer at UMKC. He spoke Thursday on “What is ISIS and Why Are We Back in Iraq?” Much of his material came from his 2005 book, The Assassin’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Carolyn Cockefair Benton, George Packer, Isis, Marie Harf, Paul Bremer, The New Yorker
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Sutherland: The Kansas School District ‘Hoarders’
One of the delights of living in the present day United States is access to the full range of wonderful reality shows on cable television… Such shows include My 600 Pound Life, Toddlers & Tiaras and Bridezillas. My personal favorite,however, is … Continue reading
Sutherland: The Hunting of the Snark
The foregoing was the title of a non-sense poem for children by Lewis Carroll, the 19th century Englishman who also wrote Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass… My grandfather was active in a fraternal group for the lumber … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Mendelsohn, Dwight Sutherland, Joan Connelly
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Sutherland: The Long (Greg Orman) Con Versus The Short (Paul Davis) Con
The best movies are those which help us make sense of the often incomprehensible situations in which we find ourselves in our daily lives… One such move was 1990’s “The Grifters,” starring John Cusack, Annette Benning and Angelica Houston. The three … Continue reading
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Sutherland: The Kansas Moderate Old Guard Meets Its Waterloo
The most elite unit in Napoleon’s army was the “Old Guard.” Its members were the longest serving veterans and those with the fiercest loyalty to the Emperor. Last weekend I went to an event where the Old Guard of the … Continue reading
Sutherland: The Irony of the Great Greg Orman
In 2012, Steve Kraske, the Kansas City Star’s political correspondent, quoted approvingly from liberal authors’ James Steele and Donald Bartlett’s book, “The Betrayal of the American Dream”: “We have created the world’s newest financial aristocracy, a class that has successfully put … Continue reading
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Tagged George Soros, Greg Orman, Kansas City Star, Michael Bloomberg, Steve Kraske
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Sutherland: Scotland Forever; Behind the Scenes on ‘The Vote’
I was fortunate enough to be in Scotland two weeks ago for the referendum on Scottish Independence… The couple I was staying with were committed “No” voters but the town where they lived seemed to be evenly divided pro and … Continue reading
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Sutherland: Villains, Victims & Self-Loathing, Among the Well-Informed
The key to understanding much of liberal thinking is to grasp the interplay between the concepts of guilt and victimhood… We are told, for instance, that all of us are guilty as Americans of consuming a disproportionate share of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dwight Sutherland, George W. Bush\, Nina Simone
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Sutherland: Is Elite Education Poison Ivy?
Six years ago, William Deresiewicz, a former Yale professor and literary critic, wrote a very cogent and thought-provoking essay, “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education.” Last month, he followed up on his original diagnosis, expanded on it with further observations, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Harvard, Princeton, University of Kansas, William Deresiewicz, Yale
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Sutherland:”There At The New Yorker”- Liberalism Thrives at New Yorker @ Expense of the Truth
Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” has a great scene where the protagonist is in a movie line listening to a self-important bore go on and on about the theories of the late media critic Marshall McLuhan… Then Allen’s alter-ego steps off … Continue reading
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Sutherland: Boats Against the Current & The Great Gatsby
Critic and scholar Sarah Churchwell – a native of Chicago’s North Shore(like Gatsby’s “Tom Buchanan”) – has written the most significant book about the artistry of F. Scott Fitzgerald in many a year… Churchwell is a graduate of Vassar and Princeton. … Continue reading
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Sutherland: Republican Convention Fever Sweeps Past KC
You win some, you lose some… “For there is something about a national convention that makes it as fascinating as a revival or a hanging. It is vulgar. It is stupid. It is tedious; it is hard upon both the … Continue reading
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Sutherland: Not So Concealed Enemies
I have been in situations twice in my life where I sensed that I was in the presence of a very great evil… In 1976, I had press credentials from the Lawrence Journal World and used them to cover the … Continue reading
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