NEW YORK April 11 (DPI) – Longtime NYT Columnist David Brooks, for years a thoughtful right-of-center voice, has grown despairing about America’s future – his latest submission on the scholastic performance and intellectual capacity of the citizenry, and its causes, triggered 2,100 reader comments. Kicking off his pessimism, Brooks a few weeks back declared that […]

WASHINGTON, DC – Feb. 18 (DPI) – Among the dizzying actions of the last month – some potentially positive, many others catastrophic – Trump’s direct outreach to Vladimir Putin is emerging as perhaps the most destructive of all. And so far, America’s legislative bodies – both the Senate and The House of Representatives – are […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jan. 29 (DPI) – The Washington Post six weeks ago added a summary and supervision feature to its comment section, apparently all run by an Artificial Intelligence program, and readers have been so unimpressed that the volume – and quality – of comments has sharply declined, according to a review by Digital […]

NEW YORK, NY Dec. 10 (DPI) – A UNLV creative writing professor offered in a NYT op-ed this week that men are reading less these days, and reading and writing hardly any fiction, a development he says should “worry everyone.” The professor, David Morris, wrote: Male underrepresentation is an uncomfortable topic in a literary world […]