Speaking truth to the powerless

THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter

There is likely little in this world that would nip a column's cyber-readership in the bud faster than an antique quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, but what the hell, I'm feeling defiantly bold this morning:

"[T]he sour faces of the multitudes...," mused the 19th-century philosopher in his famous, albeit indirect, assault on populism, "have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs."

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