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...