THE YOUTH VOTE: Zack Roth’s piece in the new Washington Monthly on Tim Ryan, identifies a potentially important swing constituency in the ’08 elections: young people. As Roth notes, “In last fall�s midterms, Democrats increased their share of the vote among eighteen- to twenty-nine-year-olds by 11 percentage points, while gaining only around 6 points with […]
Ben Adler
Ben Adler is a senior editor at City & State NY. He previously worked for Politico, The Nation, and Reuters, and he has written for The Washington Post and The New Republic, among other publications.
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Cities For Sale
The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology and Development in American Urbanism by Jason Hackworth (Cornell University Press, 256 pages) If you live in or near a big city, you may not realize that neoliberalism is fiendishly taking over your environ. No, it’s not just the Starbucks by your office, or the Gap that just opened in […]
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GIULIANI ON RACE:
GIULIANI ON RACE: The New York Times was right to condemn, in an editorial today, Rudy Giuliani‘s recent statement in Alabama that it should be up to the state’s voters whether to fly the confederate flag over their capitol. But I think they are making quite a leap in automatically accusing Giuliani of pandering to […]
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WILLFUL IGNORANCE.
WILLFUL IGNORANCE. Over at the Corner, Jonah Goldberg has apparently made a regular beat out of arguing against taking action to prevent the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change. First, last week, he responded to my mockery of National Review‘s new “Planet Gore” blog and its undue respect for the delusions of novelist and climate […]
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ANOTHER KIND OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ON THE INTERNET:
ANOTHER KIND OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ON THE INTERNET: Just a little follow up to Garance’s interesting post on the sexual harassment female bloggers often face. Men too, can be the victims of this behavior, including yours truly. A commenter on this blog once accused me of being a homosexual and a conservative (I’m neither, not […]
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INTER-OFFICE DISCONNECT.
INTER-OFFICE DISCONNECT. Today the New York Times editorial page tut-tuts the media’s coverage of the recent quarterly presidential candidate fundraising filings. This year, the political industry is spinning the money before it is spent, ordaining mega-fund-raising as the sine qua non of a credible candidacy. Dispatches heralded �the winners of the first presidential fund-raising race,� […]
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DEFINING INTELLECTUAL HONESTY:
DEFINING INTELLECTUAL HONESTY: Jon Chait posts on the Plank that he thinks Ramesh Ponnuru is the most intellectually honest conservative writer. I can’t decide if I agree. On the one hand Chait has some strong evidence from Ponnuru’s recent blogging on The Corner that, at least in so far as judging Republican presidential aspirants goes, […]
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MISSING TIME.
MISSING TIME. Time, to their great credit, has put out a special double issue this week on global warming and what you can do to prevent it. But their exhaustive list (it includes 25 items) contains some rather curiously small suggestions and omits one crucial big one. While they had room to encourage their readers […]
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PLANET GORE.
PLANET GORE. I know that to be considered a respectable independent thinker, and not a partisan hack, I’m supposed to take conservatives seriously. And I try, really I do. But then sometimes they go and do something so ridiculous that makes it just too hard for me. Case in point: National Review has started a […]
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MCCAIN’S AMBITION:
MCCAIN’S AMBITION: I think it’s interesting that the story Dana tells about John McCain‘s near-party switch gets so little attention (the general story of how McCain might have switched, that is, not the specific confirmation offered in today’s Hill piece). It seems like a pretty big deal that the Republican front-runner almost switched parties, and […]