By Jan 23,2009

A guest post from Marty Peretz

So our new president has tapped George Mitchell as Middle East envoy. The president is a good man. Mitchell too. But do either of them really believe this will amount...

By Jan 23,2009

Poorly named towns

Some might say her beat is sophomoric, but I wouldn’t mind having Sarah Lyall’s job. Check out her latest in the Times: In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone...

By Jan 23,2009

Celebrating Obama's Achievement

I agree with Jonah Goldberg: I am proud of and excited by the fact that we have inaugurated the first black president of the United States. He wasn’t my first...