Noah Oppenheim is a media executive who served as president of NBC News from 2017 to 2022 and co-wrote the screenplay for the film 'Jackie.' He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard in the early 2000s covering politics, media, and higher education.
BAGHDAD IS A GIFT to the cynical. The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) has erected miles of concrete blast barriers along major roads. Every entrance to the "Green Zone" is barricaded behind sandbags, razor wire, and at least one parked tank. Checkpoints, fortifications, large guns--the…
IN THE DAYS after September 11, mainstream Arab- and Muslim-American community groups condemned the terrorist attacks in the most emphatic terms. Salam Al Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), recalls, "As citizens we all felt the obligation to seek the culprits…
AS PRESIDENT OF Harvard University, Larry Summers holds perhaps the most prominent office in American academia and, you might think, one of the most powerful. But after just six months on the job, he now better understands who really holds the power. In late December, three members of Harvard's…
On March 8, the Reverend Jesse Jackson held a press conference in Chicago. All the country's major newspapers sent reporters, and all three cable news networks covered the event live. Jackson had promised to explain the byzantine finances of his nonprofit empire -- in particular, the omission from…
HARVARD was once a great university. It may still be, but it is now even greater theater. No one knows the script better than government professor Harvey C. Mansfield, a renowned scholar of political philosophy who has a certain knack for finding trouble.
The Virtue of Prosperity