Some chatter out there on Jack Shafer’s piece on Cokie Roberts. He is not fond of her NPR pieces, to say the least: “No, softball isn’t the right sports analogy, if only because Robe… more →
Around The Spherewrote 2 weeks ago: There isn’t anything to quibble with in this excellent (really, as always) post from Conor Fri … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Buried deep in the Washington Post’s saga of how Republican Dede Scozzafava came to endorse De … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I consider myself unbelievably lucky that four years ago, while touring Europe before a term abroad … more →
wrote 1 month ago: A friend of James Fallows makes a spectacular point, one that should be repeated by liberals as ofte … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Leon Wieseltier does not rank as a must read for me. I suppose it’s because he helped push An … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Ugh. Makes me sick to think that conservatives forget (willingly, or not) about how gross the Bush- … more →
wrote 4 months ago: I am hardly qualified to say much about Ted Kennedy. It should suffice to write that Dave are the p … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Here’s a question I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: what sort of deal do fashion an … more →
wrote 4 months ago: My childhood is officially over. (A little late?) An old episode of Unwrapped has revealed that ba … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Last year I read a paper by a fellow grad student — not a very good one, but interesting nonet … more →
wrote 4 months ago: So Niall Ferguson had the bad sense to write the following about Obama in his Financial Times’ … more →
wrote 5 months ago: I guess it’s big news that the president wants Senate Democrats to keep up the hard work on he … more →
wrote 5 months ago: There’s been a lot of chatter of late about the efficacy of the August recess. I don’t … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Nate Silver gives us all a much-needed calming-down. I’m inclined to give him the benefit of … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Well, this blog delivers on something. Because while I for the most part sit here and rant to you a … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Charles Pierce gets the Friday hallelujah. I missed Countdown last night — went on a bike rid … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Via my good friend Cassie, the Wall Street Journal appears to have taken up the cause that was my te … more →
wrote 5 months ago: This story from the NYT on the Uighurs in China is pretty interesting. I looked up Kashgar on Googl … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Well, I hadn’t gone so far as to say Liz Cheney was going to use her current bully-pulpit to r … more →