By Ankush I wonder if this is a preview of the type of analysis we’ll get when Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism finally comes out and we can all bask in the glory of his very serious, thoughtful argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care: What’s not O.K. is […]
Ankush Khardori
Ankush Khardori is an attorney and former federal prosecutor who specialized in financial fraud. He has written for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and other outlets.
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Yes Men
By Ankush Andrew Bacevich takes Harry Reid’s claim about General Pace’s (quite obvious) incompetence one step further. Rather than continuing to confirm people for the position of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “A better idea might be to abolish the position of JCS chairman altogether — and the entire JCS system along […]
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Great Moments in Irony And/Or Projection
By Ankush Via K-Lo, Doug Feith on George Tenet: Anyone can make an honest mistake. But the problem with George Tenet isthat he doesn’t seem to care to get his facts straight. He is notmeticulous. He is willing to make up stories that suit his purposes andto suppress information that does not.
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The Real Question About Obama
By Ankush Enough about all that. Who’s going to play him on Saturday Night Live?
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“Conciliation” or “Persuasion”?
By Ankush I had high hopes for Larissa MacFarquhar’s profile of Barack Obama, but ultimately I don’t think it breaks much, if any, ground: What you get is the requisite (if interesting) personal history, the commentary on Obama’s mostly reserved demeanor on the campaign trail, and — the centerpiece of this profile — much ado […]
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Ending Prison Rape
By Ankush David Kaiser, the president of Stop Prison Rape, has a letter in the latest issue of The New York Review that’s worth a look. Kaiser wrote in response to Jason DeParle’s (typically excellent) essay a couple issues ago, which explored many of the problems with the American prison system (and which I wrote […]
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Yet More Thompson
By Ankush Had enough Fred Thompson today? Not yet! I just finished reading The Weekly Standard‘s profile of Thompson by Stephen Hayes, quite possibly the worst journalist in America. (Incidentally, the title of Thompson’s ridiculous op-ed today — “Case Closed” — was also the title of one of Hayes’s ridiculous articles on the supposed connections […]
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Who You Calling Obtuse?
By Ankush I’m finding James Kirchick (the assistant to Marty Peretz) to be … interesting. In the middle of an attack on the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission — the merits of which I’m not concerned with here — he offers this up: IGLHRC’sexecutive director, Paul Ettlebrick, who seems unable to open her […]
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Do Newspapers Need Ombudsmen?
By Ankush Today comes the answer to the question that we’ve all been pondering: The Times will indeed continue to have a public editor once the sleep-inducing Barney Calame’s term is up. My friend Rachel Sklar was very critical when there was talk that the public editor position might be eliminated. She made some compelling […]
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Prisons, Democracy, and Political Opportunism
By Ankush The always excellent Jason DeParle has a wide-ranging piece in The New York Review about prisons today. DeParle writes, among other things, about how imprisonment increases and at the same time hides inequality, as well as about the astonishing increase in imprisonment rates in the US (now “five times the historic norm and […]