Ezra Klein

It was 16 years ago to this day that the Ayatollah Khomeini issued his fatwa against Salman Rushdie. And, thanks to a kind reader who used my wish list, I actually found the offending tome, Satanic Verses, in my mailbox this morning. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the anniversary of Khomeini’s […]

I hadn’t understood why Rove was promoted to deputy chief of staff, seemed like codifying what he already had, which would make no sense. Of course, I was looking for devious reasons when the actual rationale was obvious and mundane. Andrew Card is going to retire soon. When he does, the deputy chief of staff […]

With the Iraqi ballots counted and the results released, things look good. Sistani’s list did well, but not well enough to act like democratically-elected dictators. They’ll probably need to forge good relations with the Kurds, whose second place finish is karmically positive (after the endless oppression they’ve undergone, they deserve some power) and politically advantageous. […]

I hear that the weekend saw Eason Jordan resign? Really? Wow, I take a few days off and you guys totally drop the ball. As if. Is someone out there actually impressed by the Jordan’s resignation? Yes, yes, I know Hugh Hewitt is going to print out a picture of a scalp and staple it […]

Maya Marcel-Keyes, daughter of Alan Keyes, has publicly come out of the closet. In response, her parents have stopped speaking to her, thrown her out of the house, and cut off payments to her college. You know, like good Christians.

Like everyone else in blogland, I set aside a few minutes each day to sacrifice a goat to Google. But despite the enormous bloodletting conducted in their names, I often find them reasonably useless when I’m looking for very targeted information sets. Maybe I’m just not good at searching, but googling has served me better […]

Nixon might have gone to China a time or two, but Arnold’s practically taken up residence. His persona has left him essentially invincible on questions of toughness, and he’s used the freedom for pretty progressive ends. It wasn’t long ago that he signed into law a needle-exchange program that Gray Davis, afraid of being demagogued […]

So back to this blogging thing, huh? I’m 4,000 words into my Prospect critique and I think it’s going well, but we’ll see what the folks at the magazine think when the 8,000 word behemoth crushes their desks. In any case, many thanks to Steve for holding down the homefront. Seems like things were hopping […]

Since Sunday is now coming to an end and therefore the weekend is soon over, I will no longer be posting. Ezra returns tomorrow, Monday, and I return to the comments section. After a weekend off, I’m sure he’ll have much to say. But first I’d like to thank Ezra for inviting me to experience […]

I’m a Chicago guy so that explains the Tribune referencing. For my last post, I’d like to suggest that everybody reads this article about testing race horses for cocaine. The nut of the question: “How much cocaine should be allowed in a racehorse…and whether to disqualify horses for trace amounts of the drug?” According to […]