Essayist Roger Rosenblatt considers the consistently talented. The title is straightforward, like its author.
Herblock cartoons are unmistakable.
They are clear, funny, on the nose, and they are right. And they and he have been right for 50 years. He definitely knew who Hitler was and what we ought to do about him. In the 1950s, he knew who Joseph McCarthy was. In the 1960s, he knew where Kennedy and Kruschev ought to be on nuclear war and where the country ought to be on racial equality.