Volume 51, Number 8 · May 13, 2004

In Bush's Washington

By Russell Baker

In Washington an age of moral and philosophical sterility is deeply entrenched, and as Elizabeth Drew's reporting in these pages attests, the result is not pretty.[1] The decline dates from the end of the cold war, which suddenly and shockingly left Washington without any purpose that could be called visionary or even faintly noble.



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