By Jul 05,2008

Vote for Me or I Crush Your Genitals

The horrors of politics in Zimbabwe. One of the big downsides of globe-straddling information technology is that terrible things happening anywhere become instant and persistent public knowledge. The number of...

By Jul 05,2008

Does Hitchens Have a Meta Problem?

George Packer considers: last year he wrote a much-praised column in Vanity Fair about a soldier who joined the military in part because Hitchens’s writings inspired him to, and who...

By Jul 05,2008

Throw Out the Rulebook

Megan makes a characteristically smart comment: Bill Mayer and Clive just had a very interesting exchange on the topic of the American versus the British approach to financial regulation. American...

By Jul 04,2008

Best. Fourth. Ever.

Not too much to say today…have a happy (and safe) Fourth of July. I’ll be enjoying it in the most American way possible…watching Maury Povich tell promiscuous women who their...

By Jul 03,2008

Grand New Party, cont.

After finishing Ross and Reihan’s book, I was struck by the notion that they want to change the Republican party less than American society: restructuring farming; reimagining education; rebuilding (and...

By Jul 03,2008

Right on Russia

Stephen Cohen has an excellent, urgent column in the IHT on the topic of McCain and Obama’s totally inadequate and positively harmful Russia policies. I have nothing to add for...