Pulitzer Prize-winning Paul Greenberg, one of the most respected and honored commentators in America, is the editorial page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. An exceptional craftsman, he gives readers an aesthetic as well as political experience and has evoked comparisons to H.L. Mencken and William Allen White. A thoughtful essayist who can also be a devastating critic, Greenberg describes himself as "an ideologically unreliable conservative." Greenberg won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1978 and 1986. Among his many other honors are the 1988 William Allen White Award, the 1988 Arkansas Associated Press Editorial Writing Award, the 1987 H.L. Mencken Award, the 1983 University of Missouri School of Journalism Medal of Honor, the American Society of Newspaper Editors' 1981 Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary, and the 1964 Grenville Clark Editorial Award. He also won two Walker Stone Awards, in 1985 and 1986. Greenberg has been on the board of the National Conference of Editorial Writers and served as a Pulitzer jurist in 1984 and 1985. He is the author of the critically acclaimed "Resonant Lives: 50 Figures of Consequence" and "Entirely Personal." Editorial page editor for the Pine Bluff Commercial in Arkansas from 1962 until 1992 - except for a hiatus as a Chicago Daily News editorial writer in 1966-67 - Greenberg lectures nationwide and regularly provides political analysis on Arkansas network television. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 15 May 2012 19:23:00 GMT Tue, 15 May 2012 19:23:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Let us now praise Barack Obama. The president has finally come out and said what everyone -- except maybe himself -- knew he believed all along: He's for allowing homosexual couples to marry. That's nice. Now he can... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/05/15/gay_marriage_and_all_that 7546ef39-deeb-4af6-870a-f835752283c0 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:23:00 GMT The headline summed up the result of France's presidential election: "Hollande bests Sarkozy/ To claim helm of France." And the photograph that went with it caught the spirit of the occasion: There were... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/05/14/revolution_as_fashion d75da6b6-4d2f-4c9d-8fca-b6e486358f07 Mon, 14 May 2012 16:21:00 GMT When it come to the Republicans' choice for president this year, it's all over but the shoutin' in Tampa. . . The great hall, the red-white-and-blue balloons, the signs proudly proclaiming the name of each... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/05/13/the_great_american_guessing_game_who_for_vice_president 210dfdca-db95-4914-9d1f-fb4a22b671b5 Sun, 13 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT In the fall of 1983 in Moscow, we came in from the cold. Ending our tour of what was then the Soviet Union, a group of editorial writers from across the United States stepped on American soil for the first time in three... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/05/12/the_power_of_one_free_man d0c3463c-2fc8-4a22-9d73-26b01e314072 Sat, 12 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Every presidential campaign seems more vicious than the last, probably because it's happening right now, and the public has had four years to forget the slings and arrows of the last one. John McCain, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/05/09/the_dirtiest_campaign c8a305ea-eb55-48d8-adfd-43664ab8eef2 Wed, 09 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT "All newspaper editorial writers ever do is come down from the hills after the battle is over and shoot the wounded." --Attributed to Murray Kempton, among many others. Newt Gingrich finally made it formal.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/05/05/a_few_words_for_newt_gingrich 18e8277b-bb88-455d-92fc-0b8cbe45df32 Sat, 05 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Charles Colson died the other day at 80, a respected and even revered evangelist in the mold of Billy Graham. By the time of his death, he may have been the country's leading prison reformer, too, working to change... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/05/03/redemption f2715efd-52f1-481e-9b27-1b0114c52af0 Thu, 03 May 2012 17:32:00 GMT The old man in a rumpled linen suit at the end of the bar stood out like a weed at a garden show. All around him the young couples and swinging singles, so impressionable and so eager to impress, went on laughing and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/04/27/old_man_in_a_bar_or_a_meditation_against_entropy ae0d0cd4-b33e-4ccf-b895-a79c11f97e02 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT LITTLE ROCK -- It's a beautiful sunset, as always, when seen from the Great Hall of the Clinton Library with a glass of wine in your hand and the chamber music about to begin. The anticipation is palpable. Good things... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/04/24/a_night_in_the_great_hall 89bd3fd2-7dd7-4f41-8e34-a9d65da0e022 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:52:00 GMT It's another sign of the blah times: The sordid details of our public figures' none too private scandals have grown beyond boring. By now, scandals have become as repetitive, predictable and standardized as the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/04/19/the_decline_of_scandal cde5338a-2941-426f-a614-a48e7ed47c28 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:38:00 GMT "April is the cruelest month. . . ."--T. S. Eliot, [ital The Waste Land [unital] Ronald Reagan said it back in 1983: "Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/04/17/repeal_that_infernal_tax_code 97512520-f717-4b15-bc6d-e94b0f7559b0 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT It'll be quite a ceremony -- you could even call it a spectacle -- at Fayetteville, Ark., come Sunday. It seems Bill Clinton is due back at the University of Arkansas, where he once taught law, to deliver the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/04/13/pomp_and_circumstance 5a963279-b7c7-475f-b647-d77cf8e495a9 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT The race for the Republican presidential nomination has been over for some time, and now Rick Santorum has finally admitted it -- and let it be over. At last. He's run a strong race, and is to be congratulated on it.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/04/11/its_over__its_been_over 285e8544-45d2-4e3f-aa98-4536b4f558e9 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:02:00 GMT Call me Mary -- not the one who bore Him, but she who was borne up by him, little did I know it at the time. And you? You say you're some sort of scribe. Lord knows there is always something to write about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/04/08/easter_interview_the_woman_who_was_there 72fc2087-4b47-4262-b624-2043d8a49967 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Something happens to ethics when it becomes a specialty. It becomes professionalized, certified, rarefied. It becomes something besides ethics. It becomes expertise, not thought or depth so much as focus. Specialization... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/04/04/another_line_crossed 5e467b46-f1ca-4c43-ae48-e569048a82e3 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT