By • Jul 06,2010

Middle Sassed

A Google search of the phrase “American middle class” brings you to a .gov website about the “Middle Class Task Force” that displays a quote from Vice President Joe Biden,...

By • Jul 02,2010

McChrystal revisited: Was it so bad?

I just ran across David Brooks’ column from last week, in which Brooks comes perilously close blaming journalists for McChrystal’s fall: Over the course of 50 years, what had once...

By • Jul 02,2010

Kristol: Michael Steele Must Go

Dear Michael, You are, I know, a patriot. So I ask you to consider, over this July 4 weekend, doing an act of service for the country you love: Resign...

By • Jul 01,2010

My Beloved ex-Trotskyist Popinjay

My favorite living writer, Christopher Hitchens, has been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. I suppose, with his habits, some form of illness was inevitable. When we met two months...