Bill Thompson

Bill Thompson is the author of Why Travel? A Way of Being, A Way of Seeing and Art and Craft: 30 Years on the Literary Beat.

An American Tragicomedy: On Andy Borowitz’s “Profiles in Ignorance”

Bill Thompson looks at “Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber” by Andy Borowitz....

POLITICS

Can We Talk?: On Taylor Dotson’s “The Divide: How Fanatical Certitude Is Destroying Democracy”

Why can’t we get anything done around here? Because the conversation is too small....

POLITICS

You’re Tearing Me Apart: On William L. Barney’s “Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy”

Bill Thompson reviews “Rebels in the Making,” the new Civil War history by William L. Barney....

POLITICS

HISTORY