It's rare that I would look to the New York Times for a decent critique of American news reporting, but this is pretty good: When 24-hour news channels debuted, we wondered how they’d fill up the time. Now we have an answer. Just consider the...
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Having heard that a certain blogger seems to think that Stanley Fish is a representative figure of the American left [to be clear, it's G*oldst*ein, not Maha, who's making this.
Kaus's attempt to defend Breitbart is indeed a classic example of how speculation about motives is usually not a very productive way of proceeding. Breitbart's reckless disregard for the truth.
Will Wilkinson writes about country music and, as is typical when anyone tries to connect it with politics, it's pure projection. Bathing it in the kind of pseudo-scientific data points that prove virtually nothing except for wonky writers' desire to be taken seriously, Wilkinson neither...
Glenn Reynolds. It's continuing to pile on one conspiracy theory laden update after another to "explain" a story that's 120-proof bullshit that makes it extra special.
Look, I would like to bury this, but this is just too big to be suppressed: Barack Obama made his students read Derrick Bell, the legal academy's preeminent Critical Race.
What Steve M. and Charles say about the increasingly embarrassing Michael Kinsley and his one remaining belief -- that everyone is as vacuously cynical as he is. (Well, OK, there's also his apparently sincere belief that political leaders need to meet his exacting aesthetic standards.)...
Shorter Verbatim Susan Collins: "I feel I have to vote for the Blunt amendment with the hope that its scope will be further narrowed and refined as the legislative process.
McArdle outdoes herself in a column entitled (and I swear this is not a parody unless someone hacked the Atlantic site) "Are the Rich Completely Undeserving of Sympathy?" Um, yes..
David Greenberg with a classic take-down of Chris Matthews' ridiculous new biography of JFK. The whole thing is a must-read, but essentially Greenberg notes that Matthews dreams of an uber-masculine Kennedy who keeps those elite effete liberals at bay. This fits the sexist and misogynist...
Andrew Revkin is getting defensive over the backlash against his hack job on Peter Gleick leaking the Heartland documents. Revkin has pulled out the big guns to make us stop--the.
It's not that easy to get Greenwald and Chait to agree on a foreign policy issue, but the genocidal ravings of Little Rambo Carlson seem to have done the trick.