One of the great put downs -- putting Arthur Schlesinger back in his kennel

JFK knew how to put the flattering man with the note cards in his place. And now Joseph Epstein does it a lot better. An expose of the historian as sycophant is long overdue. This is priceless. Unfortunately it's gated. It's worth a trip to the library.

The recent publication of Schlesinger’s diaries* is a useful reality check on such claims. The book also provides an account of a career in American liberalism that is, in microcosm, a partial account of the career of the liberal temperament itself over the past half-century.