Robert J.Samuelson Columnist Robert J.Samuelson is a weekly columnist for The Post,writing on political, economic and social issues.His column appears on Wednesdays. He is the author of the books "Untruth:Why the Conventional Wisdom is(Almost Always)Wrong" (2001),a collection of his columns,and "The Good Life and Its Discontents:The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement,1945-1995"(1995). Robert J. Samuelson ❖ Columnist | Robert J. Samuelson is a weekly columnist for The Post, writing on political, economic and social issues. His column appears on Wednesdays. ❖ He is the author of the books "Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom is (Almost Always) Wrong" (2001), a collection of his columns, and "The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945-1995" (1995)