From WSJopinion: The war in Ukraine has dragged on miserably, but by now the implicitness of defeat permeates Russian TV coverage, even if the word isn’t used, writes Holman Jenkins
“Business World” deals with business and the world in which business finds itself. It is aimed at readers who know that public matters are seldom straightforward and are curious for explanations. It's published online Tuesday and Friday evenings, and in the Wednesday and Saturday newspaper editions.Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Jenkins joined the Journal in May 1992 as a writer for the editorial page in New York. In February 1994, he moved to Hong Kong as editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal's editorial page. He returned to the domestic Journal in December 1995 as a member of the paper's editorial board and was based in San Francisco. Mr. Jenkins won a 1997 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial coverage.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Jenkins received a bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He was a 1991 journalism fellow at the University of Michigan.
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