Walter Lippmann (23 September 1889 – 14 December 1974) was an American intellectual, writer, reporter, and political commentator who gained notoriety for the introduction of the concept of Cold War ...

Walter Lippmann was at one time the most influential American writer on politics and world affairs. His writing career spanned the time period from the Progressive Era to the middle of the Cold War.

Walter Lippmann complained in 1919 that American journalists were doing the work of “preachers, revivalists, prophets and agitators.” They reported the news “by entirely private and unexamined ...

The world has always been an uncertain place, and this is no less true today. After the collapse of communism in the 1990s, there was confidence that democracy had won and the market economy had shown ...

Ronald Steel, a historian and foreign policy expert best known for his monumental, prizewinning biography of one of the 20th century’s most influential political commentators, Walter Lippmann, and who ...

Paul Krugman writes, "even high-minded intellectuals are a lot more likely to watch old Fred Astaire movies than to read old Walter Lippmann commentaries." Am I the only person who has read old Walter ...

In April 1912, Walter Lippmann was feeling down. Four months earlier, he had taken what seemed to him like an exciting postcollegiate political gig: assistant to George Lunn, the newly elected ...

"I do not always agree with you, but what you say almost always makes me sit up and think," Frank Taussig, a professor of economics at Harvard, told Walter Lippmann, "and it always makes me respect ...