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Article: Postmodern Times.(the Democratic reaction to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 25, 1999
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The Democrats deny the very concept of truth.
Mr. Arkes, an NR contributing editor, is Ney Professor of Jurisprudence at Amherst College.
It may have been, altogether, a ragged, unsettling year since the Advent of Monica, yet nothing has been unsettled, or altered, in the character of Bill Clinton. He has remained, remarkably, the same. It is his defenders who have had to perform moral surgery on themselves. After watching the performance of the Democrats, and their allies, in the Judiciary Committee, we may even now say that the defense of Clinton has been far worse than his crimes. His very dissembling was a mark at least of his awareness that he had ...