Ezra Klein

I’m pretty impressed PBS named their program on the NeoCons “The Case for War.” That’s truth in advertising. Meanwhile, “America at a Crossroads,” the series it comes from, looks like a genuinely impressive piece of work. The sort of intellectually serious, elegantly produced, timely explorations of major issues that folks always lamenting never appear on […]

For some reason, Republicans routinely levy attacks on the costly haircuts occasionally purchased by major Democratic politicians. I’ve heard it thrown at Clinton, Kerry, Edwards, and occasionally see it tossed at Gore. Here’s a useful counterpoint: Meanwhile, our favorite TV nugget of the day so far came courtesy of Barbara Walters, who matter-of-factly informed viewers […]

Joe Klein’s right on this. I don’t think Al Gore is going to run*, but I really wouldn’t peg that prediction on whether he’s sporting a double chin that week. Gore is in the public eye now, and despite being a bit heavier than when we last saw him, the public is responding pretty damn […]

I really don’t know what to say. The more that comes out, the worse it is.

Went alright, though the bards won’t be singing of my performance in the generations to come. The Swedish guy is really into us becoming Estonia,, folks at Cato really don’t like relative measures of poverty, and according to some of the folks in the audience, I talk too fast. My grandmother, it should be said, […]

Brian has more thoughts on the Eve Fairbanks article I linked to earlier, but I should be more explicit about what so irritated me in it. Eve writes: But just because Pelosi has, so far, governed from the center doesn’t mean she’ll continue to do so. Might she decide her early moderation has become obsolete? […]

Kinky Friedman on his friend Don Imus: Take heart, Imus. You’re merely joining a long and legendary laundry list of individuals who were summarily sacrificed in the name of society’s sanctimonious soul: Socrates, Jesus, Galileo, Joan of Arc, Mozart and Mark Twain.

Via Digs, Addie Stan reports from the annual Reclaiming America for Christ Conference, where Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, said: Noting that the call to prayer is “broadcast” five times a day while “Christians have a hard time getting a manger scene put up one time a year,” Perkins asked, “How […]

The new The new Pew Poll on public knowledge of current affairs includes the sadly routine finding that Fox News is doing a remarkable amount of nothing for its viewing audience. Subjected to 35 questions about the news, regular viewers of Fox scored directly in the national average, showing no sign of enhanced knowledge for […]