Ezra Klein

Since I failed once again to sleep during the night, I’ll be taking abrief nap, and will resume blogging in the early afternoon. In the meantime,here’s a question to ponder: The Bush strategy for fighting terrorism, at least in theory, relieson the idea that free countries will breed and export fewer terrorists.I’m open to this […]

Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in! Ezra has graciously asked me to mind the shop today, and I’ve gladly obliged. (I guess this is what it’s like to be an Army reservist.) Anyway, I want to direct your collective attention to a startling development on the privacy front. Apparently, AIM […]

I’m going to once again be a rude host and directly contradict my guest-blogger. His post below, while cleverly written, is wrong. I’ve asked him to stay on through tomorrow to help me out, and he’s agreed. Considering the bang-up job he’s done, you should all be stoked. As a general explanatory note, I’m currently […]

This will, sadly (for me, anyway), be my last post as guest-MC on Ezra’s turntables. I want to thank him profusely for having me, and thank all his readers for sharing their thoughts on my thoughts. I also want to conclude with a brief observation about blogging. A while back, Ezra lamented the fact that […]

Before I end my Weekend At Ezra’s, there’s one issue that I’ve been really eager to put before you, his faithful readers. The category is Legal Philosophy. Michael McGough, who I’m pretending is Dahlia Lithwick because I have a terrible schoolboy crush on her, argues that the Ten Commandments cases are transforming Antonin Scalia, wolfman-style, […]

I’m going to be a rude host and flat-out disagree with this guestblogger Dan Munz (who’s really doing an excellent job, don’t you guys think?). Below, he mentions various plans and shows some willingness to have Democrats fight for one that tracks with our ideals. I disagree completely. No plan, not even one, not even […]

Following up on my last post, it’s worth asking: What is our plan? Well, I think we’ve been largely hesitant to come up with one, because if we do, press stories about it will begin: “Democrats on Capitol Hill, in a sign that they agree with President Bush’s grim assessment of Social Security’s future solvency…”That […]

Matt Yglesias reports that the GOP is getting ready to go nuclear on judicial filibusters, thus baiting Democrats into shutting down the Senate, which in turn would…hell, I’ll let Matt tell it: I had to read that a couple of times until I got it. But now I see what the Senator meant. He means […]

Over at Sirota’s place, we get this excellent pic of [Montana Gov.] Brian Schweitzer publicly downing a shot of scotch in celebration of a reopening bar. Looks like fun, not to mention great PR. I’ve never understood the politician’s obsession with ribbon-cutting ceremonies and Rotary Club dinners. It’s not that these things shouldn’t be attended, […]

Matt Yglesias I’m not. Brad Plumer neither. My posts are not, unfortunately, cascading lists of think tank documents I’ve absorbed, and I rarely feel able to talk about marginal tax rates. But even little substance-free me was able, on Friday (randomly chosen), to write about Bush’s atrocious nominee for UN Secretary, Labor politics in Los […]