Finally got around to making that writings archive I was musing about last weekend. To check it out, click on “Published Pieces” on the right or click here. It’s strange — my blogging gets most of the attention, but I work harder, and longer, on these articles. Hope you guys will take advantage of them.
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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AND I WOULD’VE…
AND I WOULD’VE SUCCEEDED, TOO, IF NOT FOR THOSE MEDDLING SITCOMS. Stanley Kurtz‘s hysterical post unveiling the “the entirely unsecret conspiracy against patriotism, tradition, and religion hiding in plain sight on our movie and television screens, in our universities, and on the pages of the mainstream press” is a peculiar piece of argument. Conservatives, he […]
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Damn the Clamshell
Glad to see someone taking on the big issues. Wired has an article today on clamshell (or Oyster) packaging — those hellish sheets of thick, soldered-together plastic that entomb all manner of electronics and make extraction a project requiring enough sharp pieces of metal to fill a medieval armory. The little buggers are so irritating […]
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CAN’T WIN FOR…
CAN’T WIN FOR WINNING. LB is right — the conventional wisdom is shifting against the Democrats. As today’s Washington Post shows (and as Sam noted), the GOP is setting up victory as merely keeping Congress in 2006. Of course, with gerrymandered districts and the natural benefits of incumbency, losing Congress is a virtual impossibility. The […]
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Rohe’s Dissent
Publius has a fascinating post on the left’s capacity for effective dissent, focusing on Jean Rohe’s pre-buttal to McCain’s graduation speech. “I did,” Publius writes, “find her speech (and McCain’s heckling) troubling – not because it showed disrespect, but because of its utter futility as a method of dissent.” But Publius doesn’t actually mean “futile.” […]
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GOREWATCH. It’s…
GOREWATCH. It’s getting a bit hard to keep up with Gore‘s press. He’s got the cover of New York Magazine this morning, under the heading “The UnHillary?” The story is written by John Heilemann, who received significant access to the man himself, and came back with the stories to prove it. “Eleven years ago, I […]
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What’s the Matter with Indiana?
by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math In preparing Yet Another Al Gore Speculation Post, I was thumbing through the SurveyUSA 50 state approval ratings. The one I find most striking is Indiana’s. Over the past three months, Bush has lost 10 points in the Hoosier State, but only 6 in South Dakota, 5 in neighboring […]
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Net Neutrality and Utopia
(Posted by John.) Lest anyone think otherwise, net neutrality is a real concern. Here in Canada, Shaw (a cable provider) is charging people who use a VOIP client other than Shaw’s own a $10 fee. So what do we do if/when we lose this fight? To find the answer, we have to travel to Utah, […]
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What’s With the Fake Iran News?
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf So what’s the deal with the fake news coming out of Iran? We all heard these reports that Jews were being made to wear yellow badges. Turns out — not true. And we get all these misquotations of Iranian leaders, especially regarding their intentions towards Israel. Clearly, the media is […]