Fatal Realism
Andrew O’Hagan: Walter Lippmann’s Warning, 25 December 2025
Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography
by Tom Arnold-Forster.
Princeton, 353 pp., £30, July,978 0 691 21521 1 Show More
by Tom Arnold-Forster.
Princeton, 353 pp., £30, July,
“... so dull.’ At his peak, Lippmann was writing on three or four subjects a week; he believed, as Tom Arnold-Forster puts it in his biography, that ‘journalism was a vocation with political responsibilities to inform public opinion and help democracy function.’ Lippmann did recognise the increasing capacity of people to select their own facts, a ... ”
