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) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 25 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ It's called deniability. By keeping a president out of the loop, his loyal aides can hope to insulate him against any accusation that he knew of the dirty tricks being played on his opponents. That doesn't make the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/05/25/shakespeare-knew-all-about-deniability-n1605943 48dce50a-ba56-4f9e-9661-e98fa29268ca Sat, 25 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT The most vivid memories aren't those carved in stone but the ones etched in the mind. Memory deepens with the years, the way a river carves through rock, slowly creating canyons, revealing old layers, unveiling pain... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/05/23/the-old-lady-in-black-n1603556 0cabda92-d6f0-45d8-ba04-632c1cb13595 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT The jurisprudence of Her Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, may be only mediocre at best, but her candor deserves the highest praise. Every few years she'll pull back the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/05/22/the-growing-case-for-life-n1602669 bba0b1dd-aa5c-48b2-aa1b-12e17c6938f2 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT As it goes with these things, every day there is another drip. Which becomes a trickle, then a stream, and soon enough a flood. Maybe even a whole monsoon season. Scandals tend to multiply. It's not that some folks sudd http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/05/19/scandal-of-the-day-n1600024 7d524f2e-1329-442b-b044-3f79629e6fc0 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Our president is one cool customer, careful to stay a little distant from his Scandal of the Day, sidestepping any embarrassing questions rather than confronting them, analyzing his critics rather than answering them, l http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/05/17/what-of-barack-obama-and-don-draper-n1599064 d14f5cce-3627-4565-a1cc-512baf2fa135 Fri, 17 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT "We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure." --Bob Woodward "History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." --Attributed to Mark Twain Check your calendar. Is this 2013 or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/05/16/deja-vu-all-over-again-n1597426 065b1046-479f-4467-a254-d4de46782ad5 Thu, 16 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Now we know. Or at least we know more than we did about what happened at Benghazi, and, even more telling, what happened afterward. And there's doubtless more to come. With each congressional hearing, with each... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/05/14/the-coverup-unravels-n1593816 13be82e1-b1ae-4e6c-bffe-32401a36b8c7 Tue, 14 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT The bloody war-by-proxy continues in Syria. It pits the embattled, increasingly desperate but still determined and far from defeated dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad against a disorganized amalgam of rebels, aka the Free... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/05/11/thats-the-middle-east--and-the-west-too-n1592614 a4525d57-3edd-443b-a9ce-1cc09f2d3388 Sat, 11 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Again with Guantanamo. Whenever this president can't answer a direct question about some failure of American security, or at least can't answer it satisfactorily, he goes into his riff about the need to ... close the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/05/07/close-down-gitmo-why-sure-n1588478 b3528cde-6ea4-4b36-8c5e-d0f12a2b2608 Tue, 07 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Kermit Gosnell. If you don't recognize the name, that's understandable. His trial in Philadelphia -- on multiple counts of murder -- has been covered extensively by the local papers. But beyond that, it's as though a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/05/04/the-silence-of-the-lambs-n1586664 adf46f80-8633-465e-9b07-1529c3e2938d Sat, 04 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT This week's news from Iraq isn't good, though when has it ever been? Well, maybe during those exceptional times when Washington was paying close attention and American troops were being given the support and leeway to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/05/03/there-goes-iraqagain-or-depart-in-haste-repent-at-leisure-n1585699 4710edc3-a1bc-41d3-8df3-1547e0b17ed1 Fri, 03 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT A cancer is eating away at a once Grand Old Party, and if the party doesn't wake up and take precautions, it may wind up only a shadow of its better self -- a hollowed-out refuge for haters and paranoids and the kind of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/30/the-rise-of-the-neobirchers-n1581901 ca939e5e-5bad-4509-8dda-d003648580f8 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT "I just see a huge trainwreck coming down." That's not a quote from one of our old editorials or from any of the other critics of what has become known as Obamacare. It's a quote from one of its key backers, one... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/27/the-trainwreck-called-obamacare-n1579904 b087e54b-5633-4405-b319-9ba4317122b5 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT "I just see a huge trainwreck coming down." That's not a quote from one of our old editorials or from any of the other critics of what has become known as Obamacare. It's a quote from one of its key backers, one of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/25/the-trainwreck-called-obamacare-n1579892 b243747e-a612-43d1-9eea-949bf2aa3c2c Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:04:00 GMT The president of the United States, being a gentleman and a man, paid a compliment to California's attorney general -- Kamala Harris -- when both of them appeared at a Democratic fundraiser in that state. Indeed, he... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/24/the-times-we-live-in-n1576363 2b24f4ee-b7d5-4bba-9bbc-4bbd8504bcc1 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- -- Emily Dickinson Before the final chamber music concert of the season at the Clinton Library here in Little Rock, there was a celebratory reception. It should... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/19/boston-in-little-rock-n1573114 573615aa-ecd8-4270-93da-93010f64945a Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:00:00 GMT Dear Vet, Thanks for the memories, specifically the biographical sketch of Bill Mauldin, the great but never assuming cartoonist for Stars and Stripes during the World War, Act II. I worked in a cubicle across... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/17/a-tale-of-two-vets-n1569677 e984858c-99ab-466d-bc28-409b04929e03 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT There was something familiar, eerily familiar, about the stories that a reporter named Robert Huber recounted in his piece for Philadelphia magazine called "Being White in Philly." They were largely stories from... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/16/shut-up-he-explained-n1569204 91c99582-9396-40b3-b6ac-29ff183b190a Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:07:00 GMT It's an annual ritual yet always different. Like spring itself. Like the first taste of matzah at the Passover seder. It marks renewal. It brings past memories and future hope together in the pure, unblemished present.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/13/the-loveliest-game-n1566335 1b4eff65-d523-44f7-afe3-308e02b6a1af Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT . . "To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase -- the U-turn -- I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to; the lady's not for turning." --Margaret Thatcher at a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/11/and-there-arose-a-prophetess-in-the-land-n1563593 f03363d7-74af-404d-9f22-efd7e2225a2e Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT The editors at the Associated Press made news themselves last week when they announced that their stylebook would no longer approve the use of the phrase Illegal Immigrant to describe illegal immigrants. To borrow some... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/10/when-words-lose-their-meaning-n1562478 b80323ad-d647-451c-99dd-5cfd5a9bd1c3 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT He was the fat one, Gene Siskel was the other one. That's how lots of us thought of them when they teamed up to review the movies and bicker with each other, though not necessarily in that order, back in the long... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/06/roger-ebert-at-the-movies-n1559278 700275c8-c41f-4d7d-aa05-16841a44451d Sat, 06 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Dear Critic, It was wholly a pleasure to receive your inquiry -- or was it more of a dare? -- asking if I intend to answer Wesley Clark's guest article in last Wednesday's paper demanding that I apologize for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/05/the-general-and-me-dept-of-rebuttals-and-ruminations-n1558227 26a3b637-09e4-47ad-aeb3-713501daf52b Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT In 1793, the first administration of George Washington -- indeed, the first administration of the United States under its still new Constitution -- respectfully asked the country's Supreme Court for some help and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/04/03/time-the-best-judge-n1555808 9b5e5513-9fd4-4349-bfb0-7996bbff958b Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Occasionally there is an opinion piece in the papers so clear in its analysis of a problem, so convincing in its argumentation, and so authoritative in its judgment that, on finishing it, a reader is tempted to just... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/27/too-big-to-save-n1549689 690f68f6-7544-4bc9-a57a-e0c3eec753f2 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT Creditanstalt. Remember the name. But first a family story: He was an ambitious young man in the Roaring Twenties, fresh out of the University of Texas where he'd been, as they used to say, well-liked. And the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/26/remember-the-name-n1548537 b255db80-6674-412d-baa5-0e6646055fb8 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT Psst, pass it on. Tell the other slaves: We leave Egypt tonight. Walker Percy called it the search. Or at least his alter ego in "The Moviegoer" did. Outwardly, John Bickerson Bolling, or Binx to his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/25/we-leave-egypt-tonight-n1546450 d4e8f4c2-d4b2-4dc8-8b92-29f18b0e50b5 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:30:00 GMT A friend and critic here in Little Rock -- well, definitely a critic and I hope he's still a friend -- submitted a guest column not long ago reciting my many sins. (Whose sins are few?) And we were happy to run it on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/20/mencken-and-me-n1543915 b333ffd5-bb8b-4748-b540-f1297169e8dc Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:46:00 GMT Habemus Papam! We have a pope! That was the word, or rather the words, from St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday, and it wasn't just a worldwide church that had awaited the news, but the world itself. And the news was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/16/whats-in-a-name-a-lot-when-a-pope-chooses-it-n1535584 29ba36e9-00cc-4b7d-bff5-5eccdbbc36cc Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT With sincere apologies to, and selective quotations from, Finley Peter Dunne, creator of the immortal Mister Dooley, the Irish barkeep and political sage who first noted that politics ain't beanbag. Francis X.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/15/st-patricks-day-at-rileys-n1534535 8e868ad4-1ff0-4de6-98a8-9942d0054cac Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT . . "Law sharpens the mind by narrowing it." --Edmund Burke . . Our governor here in Arkansas now has vetoed not one but two anti-abortion bills that made it past the state legislature this session. One bill... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/12/just-one-small-point-n1531173 a8293149-e595-4c1f-92e3-aee4c96f6b36 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT What? Do even Latin American caudillos die? Apparently, according to the latest and last medical bulletin on the health (or lack thereof) of Hugo Chavez, perpetually re-electable president of Venezuela. No... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/08/sic-semper-tyrannis-n1527618 e21ff86b-58e7-41a2-99ef-3644c23bfc10 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT There's a secret lurking behind all that weeping and wailing over those across-the-board cuts in federal spending now going into effect -- and beginning to filter through the economy: They're working. The emphasis... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/07/behind-all-the-hullabaloo--the-secret-about-those-budget-cuts-n1527213 9de35232-a257-4992-adcb-c63734149c21 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT The wire services routinely refer to Benedict XVI, now the pope emeritus, as the first pontiff to abdicate in 800 years. But few of the news stories go into just who this earlier pope was, and why he chose to end his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/05/the-second-pope-n1525657 de0dc467-89ba-49f8-af47-84c6dea00702 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT The surgeon general of the United States needn't be a surgeon. And he may be a general -- or admiral -- only in name. The rank is essentially a civil office -- despite the dress whites and gold braid. Indeed, it was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/02/the-nations-doctor-n1523856 b4ec31a7-6a37-4b10-a8bd-0ecd998bb1d0 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT Here we go again. And again. And again. ... For in Washington, every day is Groundhog Day. And now, once again, the country is speeding toward the dreaded ... Fiscal Cliff! Not to mention Catastrophe, Chaos and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/03/01/the-customary-crisis-n1522891 5be3dbd9-7039-4565-8cb6-3c66e12b5ea9 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT What ever happened to the medium once known as Little Magazines? This country once had a select group of literary and political journals that represented the vanguard of American thought and art. Some were... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/02/23/higher-education-rip-n1518465 84cdf611-723e-440d-bdd0-cf47a86c660c Sat, 23 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Dear Fellow Fan, It was wholly a pleasure to get your video of Kate Smith singing "God Bless America" as only she could -- and did. It rekindled childhood memories of listening to the Kate Smith radio show every... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/02/21/voice-of-america-n1517229 368b0fad-b63f-48c1-8e13-ffe71301d812 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:32:00 GMT In the course of human events, one thing remains certain: We forget. Somewhere over murky time, Washington's Birthday faded away, and was absorbed into another three-day holiday with no distinguishing marks except maybe... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/02/20/washington-emerges-across-the-river-and-into-history-n1515732 b5403c40-25ae-404f-8cc4-d80af8514810 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Not since the eminently forgettable and now justly forgotten Louis A. Johnson was chosen to dismantle the country's military budget after the Second World War -- just in time to leave this country woefully unprepared fo http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/02/19/keep-talking-senators-of-filibusters-and-chuck-hagel-n1515113 ae624762-d729-4a5b-b39c-8fb849cc57ab Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Something is terribly wrong. Used to be, I could safely attend the annual Delta show at the Arkansas Arts Center here in Little Rock with serene confidence that I would never agree with the judge's picks. It gave me... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/02/16/the-best-of-the-delta-n1513345 900489ee-95ad-4021-a02b-1173ee87b832 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT First, the good parts. They stood out. Indeed, the president's general tone Tuesday night, despite the reflexive class warfare here and there, was much less fast and furious than his re-inaugural address -- as if now he... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/02/15/the-state-of-the-union-the-good-the-bad-and-the-eloquent-n1512565 70a7e386-bd40-4623-84ac-3d8872694bcf Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Consider this a love letter to a lady I saw only for a moment. Thirty years ago. She was passing on a trolley car, and I was on a bus headed in the opposite direction. It was in a city called Leningrad back then. I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/02/13/loves-day-is-long-n1510854 81c9874b-9a2c-4f7a-b165-67c33b39a2f0 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT These are the times that try conservatives' souls. A presidential election has been lost by a convincing margin. The winner has taken the result as a mandate, a license to do ... whatever he wants to do. It is the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/02/12/in-defense-of-losing-n1510053 63928665-b576-4965-bfc4-b825d3d1251f Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Martin Dempsey, the Army general who's now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was a division commander when he got to Baghdad in 2003 and climbed into a Humvee for his first trip off base. "I asked the driver ...... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/02/08/the-turret-gunner-was-a-she-n1507485 436c985c-9aba-4592-afbe-a54ec5948d8f Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Dear Critic, It was wholly a pleasure to hear from you about our president's Second Inaugural address, which you found uplifting, eloquent, enthralling ... while I felt safe in asserting that, well, it wasn't... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/02/05/the-great-divider-n1504920 368fe848-a53a-4bcd-99e8-285f7d09d9ac Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Washington continues to talk, but only talk, about the danger of Bashar al-Assad's increasingly desperate regime in Syria distributing its arsenal of high-tech or even nuclear weapons to terrorists throughout the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/02/02/actions-speak-louder-n1503087 7b0d8043-789d-4a74-814b-6632ddc29da9 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT John Cardinal Newman once set down a list of seven rules for writing sermons. His rules apply not just to sermons but to rhetoric in general. Simple and direct as his rules were in the 19th century, naturally they have... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/01/31/of-sermons-and-soda-water-n1501498 413d29aa-baf0-400b-be16-c115552bf9c8 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:35:00 GMT Hillary Clinton kept her cool last week as she fielded questions from two congressional committees about the State Department's failure to protect our envoys at Benghazi. Until a senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2013/01/30/lady-hillary-of-benghazi-n1500514 6bd039df-9d4d-466d-bade-e5b2b2d28f96 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:35:00 GMT