Columnist Jack Anderson's readers have come to expect daily bulletins about skulduggery all over, bleak reports that are long on data and short on philosophy. So it was something of a shock last week when Anderson took a deep dive into rumination and surfaced aglistening with optimism. Taking a long view of his trade, Anderson raised a rhetorical question about the muckraker's role in a time of widespread corruption and scandal. Might not he further weaken the national spirit by encouraging cynicism and despair?
Not a bit of it, Anderson quickly decided. In his view, the muckraker "has more confidence in America...
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