Preface To Politics

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was an influential American writer, journalist, and political commentator. He was a media critic and a philosopher who tried to reconcile the tensions between liberty and democracy in a complex and modern world. In 1913 Lippmann, Herbert Croly, and Walter Weyl became the founding editors of The New Republic magazine. During World War I, Lippmann became an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. It was Lippmann who first identified the tendency of journalists to gene...