Ezra Klein

Looks like BattlePanda and I tapped into the same thought-waves the other night. Gotta love metaphors so obvious that everyone gets them at once.

I’m no Horowitz fan, but holy hell, I didn’t think the guy was this intellectually dishonest. Challenging someone to a written debate, editing their answers down, and then publishing the exchange with comments that you wish your opponent had participated more fully — when he did and you cut it! — is a rarely realized […]

I love this Rude Pundit post. Just perfect.

Kinsley: [T]he U.S. presidency is an ego-inflating machine. The president moves in a vast imperial cocoon, unsurpassed in grandeur since the pharaohs. It would take a level of humility incompatible with running for public office in the first place for a president not to think, “Hey, I’m a pretty cool guy.” Every time George W. […]

Sam Rosenfeld’s got a terrific rundown on the eternal frustration of the evangelical voter which argues, basically, that there will be no payback for the GOP footsoldiers, it doesn’t poll well. He’s right, of course. But I want to hone in on something he says midway through: the atmosphere was suffused with a sense of […]

I think I speak on behalf of all lefty bloggers when I congratulate Ed Kilgore for his courageous stand against slavery. Bravo! More seriously, most of us smug blue-staters would probably be shocked to meet the hordes of Southerners who still think the Confederate cause was Good and Just and True. And it’s not all […]

Read this in the Galbraith book and found it a remarkable example of “what might have been”. You hardly need my commentary on it, the power of what this party could have meant is obvious on its own: Supremely adept at maneuvering, and aware that he was actually trailing in the polls, Roosevelt privately took […]

Apropos of my book meme completion below, I must admit to being a fraud. I am frankly unfit to be responding to that survey. I wish it weren’t true, and every few months I resolve to make it less true, but that doesn’t change the basic honesty of the claim. I’m a bad book-reader. Non-fiction, […]

So Digby’s tagged me on the book-meme thingie. Off we go: You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be [saved]? Since so many other folks have saved the Big Important Pieces of Serious Literature, I’m going with the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It all comes in one binding, so […]

Your must-read of the day, courtesy of Democracy Arsenal: Top 10 Myths Progressives Need to Let Go Of to Regain the Upper Hand on Foreign Policy.