Frank Rich

“I was struck by how life moved so fast, almost cruelly, on Broadway. Fiorello! had fled the Broadhurst to make way for…

— Frank Rich

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

— Frank Rich

What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it…

— Frank Rich

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

— Frank Rich

Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far…

— Frank Rich

What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse.

— Frank Rich

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part…

— Frank Rich

Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.

— Frank Rich

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

— Frank Rich

'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our…

— Frank Rich

One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama,…

— Frank Rich

No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in…

— Frank Rich

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some…

— Frank Rich

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during…

— Frank Rich

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of…

— Frank Rich

Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the…

— Frank Rich

Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's…

— Frank Rich

Of course most Americans don't know how A.I.G. brought the world's financial system to near-ruin or what credit-default swaps are. They may…

— Frank Rich

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change…

— Frank Rich

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad…

— Frank Rich