Ezra Klein

Rich Lowry must be having a hard time thinking of new ways to be a partisan hack. His latest column on the oral arguments that the Supreme Court heard last week on ten commandments displays would be a masterpiece of obfuscation if it weren’t for the fact that, try as he might, he can’t really […]

Ezra’s already mentioned the Beinart, Tomasky, vanden Heuvel roundtable, and I thought Ezra’s idea about how make lemonade out of lemons is interesting, and possibly the only good thing one can do with that kind of epidemic of mistatement. But while several people have pointed out that Beinart repeats that incorrect republican talking point about […]

In a radio address today, President Bush said: [T]he trend is clear: In the Middle East and throughout the world, freedom is on the march… The women of Iraq might beg to differ (hat tip Green Knight): The women at Nasar’s beauty salon were Christian and Muslim, Sunni and Shiite, but they spoke with one […]

As if the Senate’s proposed bankruptcy legislation isn’t awful enough, compassionate conservative Rick Santorum is looking to attach a tasty amendment to the bill. His proposal is a response to the amendment submitted by Sen. Kennedy, which would raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 over the course of two years…a nice idea considering […]

Tonight I’m heading out to hear Malcolm Gladwell (yes, he of the hair) read from his new book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. The book tries to prove that your instant, gut reactions are actually more intelligent than your considered analyses. The problem, however, is that my instant, gut reaction is that the […]

Reacting to the recent liberal magazine editor roundtable (which I’ll be saying more about later), Digby and Atrios are nailing Beinart for bringing up the “snubbing” of Bob Casey, the anti-choice governor of Pennsylvania who was denied a speaking slot at the 1992 convention. Now, Casey lost his spot because he didn’t endorse the ticket, […]

That’s not a rhetorical question, I really want to know. No, they don’t all lie, and no, not all lefties tell the truth all the time, but we’ve really seen an epidemic of lies, and un- or half-truths on the right recently, and it’s hard to fathom. Bet you didn’t know Jimmy Carter was a […]

Greetings fellow Kleiniacs. Ezra has once again exhibited his astonishingly poor judgment and turned over the keys to someone else this weekend. We have promised not to wreck the car or raid the liquor cabinet, but we’ll see. You never know what those crazy bloggers will do. OK, let’s get the blog plugging out of […]

As you can see from the quality piece below, Shakespeare’s Sister is back minding the house. Keeping her company will be Michael and Heather from the excellent Here’s What’s Left. I’ll be around this weekend as well, and will probably pop in with pieces of my own as the mood strikes. It’s going to be […]

Remember Afghanistan? We had a war there once. Not too long ago, in fact. It was, as I recall, because the government was suspected of harboring this guy, who was responsible for the tragedy we call 9/11. Soon after toppling that evil regime and bringing democracy and freedom to the Afghanis, we all but left, […]