Lippmann’s Prerogatives

It is widely and readily assumed that Mr. Walter Lippmann approaches the issues on which he speaks with the accurate knowledge, the logic, and the cold neutrality of genuine scholarship. But if his frequent fallacious pronouncements were unveiled, and his prophecies checked against subsequent relative developments, his reputation for profound learning and penetrating insight would, I believe, abruptly decline.

I invite attention to a single, but important, example—his repeated charges that Congress usurps what he calls the “prerogatives” of the President. These, he would have us believe, rest on positive provisions of the Constitution.

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It is widely and readily assumed that Mr. Walter Lippmann approaches the issues on which he speaks with the accurate knowledge, the logic, and the cold neutrality of genuine scholarship. But if his frequent fallacious pronouncements were unveiled, and his prophecies checked against subsequent relative developments, his reputation for profound learning and penetrating insight would, I believe, abruptly decline.

I invite attention to a single, but important, example—his repeated charges that Congress usurps what he calls the “prerogatives” of the President. These, he would have us believe, rest on positive provisions of the Constitution.