Andrew Ferguson, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a columnist for Bloomberg News, is the author of Land of Lincoln and Fools Names, Fools Faces, a collection of his essays. Before joining the Standard at its founding in 1995, he was senior editor at Washingtonian magazine. Ferguson has been a columnist for Fortune, TV Guide, and Forbes FYI, and a contributing editor to Time magazine. He has written for the New Yorker, New York, the New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and many others. In 1992 he was a White House speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush. He lives in A...