Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney is a Prospect senior correspondent and, most recently, author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatened Our Future (with Sheril Kirshenbaum).
Rush-Whacked:
On his radio show on Thursday, Rush Limbaugh went ballistic about my recent American Prospect Online article “The Secret War on Tom Daschle.” Apparently the piece really touched a nerve: Limbaugh read most of the article on the air and pronounced it “fascinating” (needless to say, not in a positive sense). Limbaugh interpreted the article […]
Top Spin
“W hy do people who are so smart get up and say things that are so dumb?” wonders lefty political commentator Bill Press, announcing his pick for “spin of the day” on CNN’s snarky new talk show, The Spin Room. Press’s baby-faced on-air sidekick, the bow-tied Weekly Standard writer Tucker Carlson, defines the “spin of […]
Kicking the Hobbit
When it comes to the fantasy novels of J.R.R. Tolkien, it is a truism that critics either love the books or hate them: Concerning Middle Earth, there is no middle ground. Such has been the case ever since Tolkien, an Oxford philologist, first published his epic novel The Lord of the Rings in three volumes […]
