The Review
Cracker-barrel Common Sense

Vol. 42, No. 08

08/01/2026

Cracker-barrel Common Sense

William P. Hoar

How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will ,by John Kennedy, New York: Broadside Books, 2025, 224 pages, hardcover.


If you are told a book is about politics, you might respond that you don’t need stale baloney disguised as food for thought; when hearing that a volume is an autobiography, most readers don’t anticipate learning a lot that is bad about the writer except his memory.

Thus, when it turns out that the specific book in question does indeed have an autobiographical, political bent, it is understandable that it might not arouse a great deal of enthusiasm.

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