Volume 34, Number 1 · January 29, 1987
Leaving Bad Enough Alone
By Murray Kempton
A number of my betters and Michael Kinsley's elders in the commentary dodge have visited their severities upon him for an essay in The Washington Post that bubbled with delight at President Ronald Reagan's present discomfitures. 'A laughing matter…[a] delightful collapse….Ha, ha, ha,' Kinsley wrote. 'A calamity for the nation,' David Broder reproved. 'Spare us these juveniles who won't learn or can't understand that the presidency is just too damned important for their mock-war games.'
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