By • Feb 27,2009

The Stash

Noam Scheiber has a new and very much worth-reading economics blog over at The New Republic, entitled the “The Stash.” However, I must admit I was a bit disappointed upon...

By • Feb 27,2009

Booze and the written word

A funny story from an otherwise uninteresting post: For almost 50 years Elaine Kaufman has attracted writers to her restaurant as though she were giving away royalty checks. And though...

By • Feb 27,2009

The Black Presidents Before Obama

Barack Obama was not the first African-American elected to the presidency. By my count, he was the seventh. It was just that he was the first nonfiction one. While pundits...

By • Feb 27,2009

Beware of tiny conspiracies

Reihan: At a forum in Philadelphia, I interviewed Ramesh [Ponnuru] on the Republican future. He noted that we were part of the tiny conspiracy of non-Hindu South Asian conservatives, and...

By • Feb 26,2009

Afghanistan: McCain vs. Kissinger

Within the space of 24 hours, both men have elaborated their thoughts on how to turn around the war in Afghanistan. In short, they disagree. As a former McCain staffer,...