By • Feb 27,2009

Roger Cohen gets experienced

The year is 2009. But Roger Cohen mistakenly believes it to be 1966. After reading some Aldous Huxley and spinning the Byrds’ first album, he turns on, tunes in, and...

By • Feb 27,2009

Consolation for Jindal

In light of the kind words I had for Bobby Jindal earlier in the week, I thought I should weigh in on his response to the President’s address. It hurts...

By • Feb 27,2009

The Great Sobriety

Earlier this week I dropped in on a welcome party for Republicans in the new Congress. As a friend and I strode off the elevator at Eagle Publishing’s headquarters on...

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...