Reihan Salam

Heads will roll. The phrase is common, and deservedly so: There’s something powerful, indeed inspiring, about the image of Vikings lopping off heads only to use them in lieu of bowling balls in the primitive, pre-modern Viking bowling alleys of our overheated collective imagination, or rather my overheated imagination. That rumbling sound you hear? Why, […]

Of all the Paul Wellstone memories shared on yesterday’s Sunday talk shows, perhaps the most touching was the following from Tom Daschle on CBS’s “Face the Nation”: I remember campaigning with him. In fact, I remember a time campaigning and — and I looked down at his shoes and I could see the socks coming […]