Guest post by Steve M. A couple of days ago, in a post about Jonah Goldberg’s intellectually bankrupt but disturbingly influential Liberal Fascism, Jesse Taylor made a good point about what’s going on in politics now: … what Goldberg has done is provide intellectual cover for a growing meme: Obama is the leader of a […]
Guest Post by Steve M. If the McCain campaign and the right blogosphere are horrified by Barack Obama because he called himself a “citizen of the world” in his Berlin speech, then they should be really furious at the liberal hippie who said this: I’ve had to make some very difficult decisions, as you know, […]
Guest post by Steve M. In The Boston Globe today, the novelist Elinor Lipman argues that we shouldn’t have been upset when MSNBC’s David Shuster asked whether Chelsea Clinton was being “pimped out” by her parents: I learned of Shuster’s question and its fallout while watching “Countdown,” from its increasingly self-important and bombastic anchor Keith […]
Guest post by Steve M. In the past few years, quite a bit of New York Times op-ed space has been given over to novelists and short-story writers — some of them writers I enjoy and admire. I suppose it’s a search for fresh perspectives; unfortunately, the results are often ill-informed and half-baked. An example […]
Guest post by Steve M. Yes, gratifyingly, someone who should remain many heartbeats away from the presidency will do so, if Robert Novak is correct: Close advisers of Sen. John McCain say there is no possibility that Independent Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman would be McCain’s vice presidential running mate on the Republican ticket. … Lieberman […]
Guest post by Steve M. On the op-ed page of today’s New York Times, Francis Wilkinson, the blog editor (UPDATE: actually former blog editor) of the Huffington Post (the Times IDs him as “a former Democratic consultant”), makes note of an apparent lull in partisan sniping on the part of Republican candidates. Mistaking this for […]