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) Fri, 18 May 2012 15:04:00 GMT Fri, 18 May 2012 15:04:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Anybody need still another argument for reviving the old Glass-Steagall Act (1933-99), with its salutary separation between commercial and investment banking? If so, JPMorgan Chase has just provided one. A big... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/05/18/the_2_billion_lesson d2275167-6b37-4002-b851-91eb7cbfdfd5 Fri, 18 May 2012 15:04:00 GMT 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 The president of the United States really needs a minder. Or at least an aide who'll always tell him when the microphone that's catching his every embarrassing word is open, and broadcasting his buddy-buddy chitchat... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/30/the_cynicism_of_it 97ae7952-d3d8-4512-b0fc-303019ef07ae Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:49:00 GMT To read this week's press coverage, you'd think not just a landmark Supreme Court case was upon us, but a jurisprudential Armageddon. The moment of truth has arrived, the die is about to be cast, the Rubicon crossed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/29/a_little_perspective_please 6ddd5427-9b6d-4b53-aed5-9f6957af9011 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT That would have been a big story out of Illinois last week if only Mitt Romney had lost as big as he won. It would have meant the Republican front-runner wasn't the Republican front-runner any more, which has happened... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/27/mitt_romneys_big_lead__and_big_problem d8b5e786-9eca-4612-9a3e-8145907d3791 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:49:00 GMT It was inevitable that Little Rock's national airport would be renamed the Clinton National Airport. The sound principle of not naming public facilities for prominent personages until they're safely dead now tends to be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/27/whats_in_a_name__if_it_keeps_changing 83f34789-3657-41c6-9c47-d2b257b05b73 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT "I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air." --Margaret Thatcher It's not just Pyongyang's repeated promises that have proven worthless but Washington's. Each time an agreement is reached with North... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/21/appeasement_in_fast_time 2288c6cb-ce8f-459e-ae25-ec48a21d17bb Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:07:00 GMT It happens every few years or whenever John Hinckley makes the news again. You may remember the name, unfortunately. He's the wannabe Lee Harvey Oswald who almost killed a president of the United States. And a great... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/20/in_search_of_celebrity 2a0e15fe-4c3a-4fb9-adf7-fe2410bca43f Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:55:00 GMT Another week, another GOP presidential primary to note before moving on to the next inconclusive one. And so it goes on the long trail a-winding to exhaustion or Tampa or both. This week congratulations go to Rick... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/16/last_man_standing_this_week_its_rick_santorum 659bbbc2-599c-40bf-911b-4184243054a6 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:39:00 GMT It's the latest chapter in a continuing saga: Still another climateer has been caught monkeying with the evidence. All to prove that man-made Global Warming/Climate Change isn't just a debatable theory but an... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/15/son_of_climategate a8a25262-f89c-46e3-89d7-184b746bca66 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT Can this be Eric Holder, our Eric Holder, the same attorney general of the United States who used to snub military law, who set out to close the military prison and courts at Guantanamo, who preferred to tie up Lower... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/14/good_for_eric_holder_the_education_of_an_attorney_general 5a8437b3-8cc9-4762-abba-a667cbf0a630 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT After his last comeback of so many (now he's down, now he's up, now he's both) Mitt Romney's campaign proved it was alive by eking out a win in the Michigan primary. After the mixed results from not-so-super... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/08/it_was_super_kind_of edb47107-f9e7-4508-95bd-08e6d0b782d8 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:19:00 GMT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- First comes the talk. It can't be helped, much like the announcers' chitchat on KLRE, the classical music station here in the middle of Arkansas. It's a small station, but there are those who love... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/07/program_notes_or_lutoslawski_in_little_rock bbfac9e0-c072-4553-a932-aa9b2b80fb59 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT Have you got health insurance? I do. Wouldn't it be nice if everybody did? Just think: No more worries about losing your health care if you lose your job, or just get a different one. Ah, peace of mind at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/02/wouldnt_it_be_nice 16095a23-2fcc-46d8-b015-3d7a2b21d0cb Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:33:00 GMT It was a last minute save. Mitt Romney managed to finish a couple of percentage points ahead of the latest non-Romney -- Rick Santorum -- in his native state's Republican primary Tuesday. In addition to carrying... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/03/02/the_pause_that_refreshes df3a82dc-db59-47d2-bf44-6fc442de09ed Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:06:00 GMT It was big news last fall. Not just nationally or internationally but for the universe. The eminent scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced that they had recorded a minute... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/29/watch_that_speed_limit 828768c2-ef62-4381-960d-09b36f9ae0ca Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:03:00 GMT There are some phrases that come to mean the opposite of what they say. For example, Never Again! That vow is uttered after every genocidal campaign makes the news. It was heard after Srebrenica in the Balkans,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/27/words_words_words_more_statements_less_meaning 0f747416-61f8-4b61-a0c7-5d021f7caf9a Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:25:00 GMT The list of those due to be executed is long and ominous. There were 179 names on it just here in Arkansas -- names like Carthage. Casscoe. Columbus, New Hope, Witts Springs.... Those are just some of the post... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/24/spare_that_post_office 4897a78f-4b69-44b2-88f7-4ee74e2469c5 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:50:00 GMT It's really not fair or accurate to say this administration has declared war on religion. Its policy isn't that clear. If it has one. And if it does, that policy keeps changing, depending on who's exerting what... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/22/thy_lifes_a_miracle 90451c99-6b40-43de-a3d3-5df5295a4214 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT It should be coming soon to a campaign stop near you. Watch for it: Still another high-budget, low-content production by the same masterful hand that gave you shows like "Stimuless" and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/20/divide_et_impera_another_highbudget_production 340fe7d9-637d-467b-b352-380b05c148c1 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:42:00 GMT "The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan." -- Ronald Reagan It's hard to imagine how anyone can take President Obama's latest budget seriously, including President Obama. After all, he's an intelligent... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/18/gobbledegook_galore_how_to_have_fun_on_a_budget 9c3ca3c0-b993-4b55-a537-d07e94d1945e Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Happy days are here again The skies above are clear again So let's sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again No wonder the Titanic became not just a metaphor for a whole, calamitous... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/15/happy_days_are_here_again e020931b-4d2f-4756-ab15-9d7b8bfdef4a Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT It was only a matter of time in this Age of the Poll that some mastermind at a political headquarters would decide to ask the almighty American public to pass judgment on God along with more temporal rulers. Given... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/13/god_in_the_media cc0f92fb-6e4d-4738-b354-3ae2c27ca29c Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:25:00 GMT Congress finally did something right. Or rather it did nothing at all, which was just the right thing to do in these wasteful circumstances. It let the ethanol tax credit expire after 30 years. That's 30 years during... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/11/a_blank_canvas_can_be_a_beautiful_thing 9cafbc50-b738-4cfb-838c-7019e4b1b35d Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:51:00 GMT Those who run the Komen foundation, and make a mighty good thing of it, too, sound confused in the worst way: morally confused. Formally dedicated to finding a cure for breast cancer, Susan G. Komen for the Cure... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/08/a_moment_of_clarity__thanks_to_the_race_for_the_cure 2dfb04bf-c895-4819-8120-67e6527aaa35 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT A presidential campaign is the health of economic illiteracy. Every four years, ignorance comes into its quadrennial own. There are voters to mobilize, resentments to stoke, dull gray truths to be replaced by shiny new... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/06/economics_101_change_happens 349f0f31-2d7d-4eed-9784-66bbf05b7acf Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:32:00 GMT The results in Florida were even better for Mitt Romney than most of the wildly swinging polls said they would be. With 100 percent of the vote in the Republican primary in, he was getting almost half of it -- 46... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/03/mitt_romney_wins_but_wheres_the_magic a05db857-4c8e-4763-b303-e45faaed655d Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:34:00 GMT It happens every between-the-wars period. It happened in the 1920s and '30s, then in the post-war 1940s. ... Now it's happening again in the 2010s. War-weariness sets in. A new chorus of isolationist voices arises.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/02/01/the_next_war 01927dc2-ce33-48ea-8a97-431f46a0cc3a Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/01/30/just_read_the_words 9fa23192-8d7f-4a92-bed2-6be7fdd89f1f Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:46:00 GMT For those fortunate souls who didn't have to sit through the president's State of the Union speech Tuesday night out of a sense of duty, or maybe just masochism, here is a brief summary and free translation -- very... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/01/26/the_state_of_the_union__a_free_translation ec133ab8-87fe-44cd-bda1-8b87d26a8518 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:35:00 GMT Sumday morning the word began to filter out. First it was a rumor, then the emails began arriving. Had the media jumped the gun again? But then the family released a statement. It was over. Joe Paterno, not only the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/01/25/the_curtail_falls_on_the_tragedy_of_joe_paterno 28d83560-74b6-4daa-a1ba-cd7e2b8a6b93 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT We sit in classrooms listening to another boring lecture. Or we take the kids to school on the way to work. Or climb in the pick-up truck for another day at the construction site. We stay busy or, what's much harder,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/01/23/two_brothers 33ce0731-a288-4fe6-aa18-7a734a9277e1 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:16:00 GMT Oh, dear. Still another Iranian nuclear scientist has met with a fatal accident. Accidents will happen, especially in the Middle East and to Iran's nuclear scientists. What a pity. And just as the mullahs are getting... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/01/19/there_goes_another_one fe16940e-91ef-4de4-9583-a20a4f3bd7a2 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT Let's hear it for The Usable Past. That phrase was much in vogue among historians not long ago, and may still be. Historians, too wanted to be part of the practical arts. History, we were told, isn't something to be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/01/18/the_use_of_heroes_lees_birthday_2012 c5598225-c267-488a-91d8-3bf68b260c55 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:57:00 GMT There were no surprises in the New Hampshire presidential primary. The voting results followed expectations and the polls. Win, place and show -- Romney, Paul and Huntsman -- were all predictable, even for a notoriously... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/01/12/the_unsinkable_mitt ab62cba1-3c6b-4459-b2ed-bda530a1c21f Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:55:00 GMT It is that time again, mixing mourning and gratitude, to mark the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. And now we can gather at his still new memorial in Washington. Washington is a city of monuments, as a national... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2012/01/12/the_idol_and_the_republic c96a1058-53ca-41d3-8ccd-6191757579bd Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:42:00 GMT