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Original reporting can't be evaluated by the lay reader sitting in his or her armchair.
But the fact is that there is a recognizable problem or a collection of problems, and ridiculing them is nothing more than a defensive gesture stemming from our own discomfort at facing them (if I may be allowed a little armchair analysis of my own).
Vladimir Nabokov's taxonomies of Latin American butterflies, long disparaged as armchair entomology, turn out to be top-drawer science, according to a recent article in the New York Times . In the 1940s, the émigré novelist held a part-time job at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and published the first attempted classification of an obscure group of blue butterflies known as Polyommatini . For years, Nabokov's study attracted more attention from literary critics than from scientists.
In both magazines: an examination of Kenneth Starr's legal case, a map of the White House diagraming what (allegedly) happened where, a profile of Lewinsky, a profile of Vernon Jordan, and an armchair analysis of Clinton's apparent sex compulsion.
I can't resist saying it: Quigley is an armchair theorist spouting snide opinions about circumstances of which he obviously has little firsthand knowledge.