MSNBC has a pretty accurate look forward to a world in which Democrats retake the House. bearish as I may be on our prospects for doing so, I’m also a tad concerned that expectations are overly high for what such a victory would mean. Progressives have been so frozen out of power that the recapture […]
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
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A GOOD START….
A GOOD START. The always worthwhile Jon Cohn has a terrific article on the burgeoning Democratic consensus around card check that stumbles on one point. “Bloggers on the left,” he writes, “take notice: Last week, the dreaded Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) got something right. And the only major political writer who seems to have noticed […]
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The PreRevolution Will be Televised.
I’m with Kottke. A Wire prequel season would be much appreciated — I’d love to see how Avon and Stringer built their business. Meanwhile, it’s becoming clear that it’s not really Jews who control the media, but the particular Jews who support the Wire. Today, Jacob Weisberg joining everyone from The New York Times editorial […]
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Gregg Easterbrook is a Renewable Resource
Gregg Easterbook, today in Slate: Today if a professor at Princeton claims there are 11 unobservable dimensions about which he can speak with great confidence despite an utter lack of supporting evidence, that professor is praised for incredible sophistication. If another person in the same place asserted there exists one unobservable dimension, the plane of […]
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THE WAR ON…
THE WAR ON TERROR/ISLAM/RADICAL ISLAM/BROWN PEOPLE. Last night, Steve Clemons hosted an evening with George Soros. Held at The Metropolitan Club — which initially turned me away for lacking a tie, and only admitting me once I’d radically enhanced my elegance with the finest in $4 neckwear sold by the umbrella stand at 17th Street […]
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The War on Terror/Islam/Brown People
Last night, Steve Clemons hosted an evening with George Soros. Held at The Metropolitan Club — which initially turned me away for lacking a tie, only letting me in after I’d radically enhanced my elegance with the finest in $4 neckwear sold by the umbrella stand at 17th and I — the evening was dominated […]
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ADVENTURES IN PICKING…
ADVENTURES IN PICKING UP THE DAMN PHONE. George Will is scandalized today by page 38 of “the American Prospect, an impeccably progressive magazine,” which carries “a full-page advertisement denouncing something responsible for �lies, deception, immorality, corruption, and widespread labor, human rights and environmental abuses� and for having brought �great hardship and despair to people and […]
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WILLIAM BARR: WORKING…
WILLIAM BARR: WORKING FOR YOU. My good friend Brian Beutler just published an explosive piece at Raw Story potentially implicating Verizon in the NSA wiretapping scandal and illuminating a fascinating nexus between the company’s legal department and the Republican Party. It turns out that William Barr, Bush 41’s Attorney General and a top Reagan advisor, […]
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William Barr: Working For Me, You, And George W. Bush
My good friend Brian Beutler just published an explosive piece at Raw Story potentially implicating Verizon in the NSA wiretapping scandal and illuminating a fascinating nexus between the company’s legal department and the Republican Party. Turns out that William Barr, Bush 41’s Attorney General and a top Reagan advisor, is the head legal counsel and […]
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Olbermann
For those impressed by Keith Olbermann’s recent speeches decrying the Bush administration, this interview with him is really worth a read. It reveals the sort of approach to newscasting that always stood implicit in the words of Murrow, and Cronkite, and the other great anchors of yesteryear. I was particularly struck by this: I had […]
