By • Oct 08,2008

We cast him out!

Thinking about the reaction to Conor Friedersdorf’s original article on Sarah Palin, fealty to the Republican party is essentially a kind of nationalism. Which means it’s Orwell time: As nearly...

By • Oct 08,2008

Slamming George Soros is anti-semitic?

Now, I think anti-semitism is a terrible thing. I’m extremely sympathetic to the idea propagated by some that Israel controls the United States’s foreign policy is an anti-semitic idea. Around...

By • Oct 07,2008

Scenes from the L

Last week, while I was riding the train to school, a man entered the carriage and began to address its passengers in a loud voice. He was about mid-thirties, I’d...