'Climategate' could hurt Dem agenda
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Republicans hope that the British 'climategate" scandal will affect the
Obama administration's environmental agenda.
The Tories musn't let Labour define them on tax
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Watching George Osborne and Alistair Darling on Marr this morning, one
couldn’t help but be struck by how Labour is defining the Tories on tax.
Darling k...
A Scheme Deferred
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Tom Englehardt nails the true nature of President Obama’s address to cadets
at West Point: Certainly, the choice of venue, and so the decision to
address a...
Need a Graphic Designer
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We're looking for a New York City-based graphic designer to help put the
finishing touches on a project we're working on. (We have a strong
preference for ...
The $127 million losing streak.
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Terrance Watanabe, you old fool.
Mr. Watanabe's situation illustrates the often-uneasy relationships casinos
have with their biggest clients, also known as...
'Remember the Rose Bowl We'll Win Then!'
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The undefeated Crimson Tide just beat the University of Florida 32-13
to claim the SEC football championship. Gator quarterback Tim Tebow was
crying on nat...
Face Of The Day
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A four-week-old Amur leopard baby is presented to the public for the first
time at an animal park in Hodenhagen, northern Germany on December 4, 2009.
Acco...
Men Do The Silliest Things
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Ian Buruma's *New Yorker* piece on the attempts of Dutch liberals to manage
Muslim immigration in the Netherlands has one particularly interesting
nugget...
Primary Controversy, Not Yet Solved
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The DNC's working group charged with examining and retooling the Democratic
presidential nominating process is moving forward with some recommendations,
CN...
Mass vs. Elite Opinion on U.S. Role
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A couple of days and one judicious Spencer Ackerman intervention later, it
occurs to me that a clearly and less inflammatory way of making the point I
was ...
Baucus's Legal Affairs
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus found himself the center of a
scrum of reporters Saturday as the Senate worked through the weekend on
health c...
Pop-Culture Bullet Points
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Yeasayer’s “Ambling Alp,” the first track from its forthcoming LP, *Old
Blood*, may be the best single I’ve heard all year: If Willy Wonka grew a
beard, ...
Roberts and Social Security
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A reader goes after Paul Craig Roberts: I think Paul Craig Roberts needs in
education what we call a “time out.” His assertions that Obama is being over
ru...
Is Israel a Democracy?
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Ending the occupation and discrimination against Arab citizens within its
borders will alter our perception of whether Israel began as an imperfect
democra...
Friday Photo: The World's Highest Political Body
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Nepal may have outdone the Maldives (words I never thought I would type) in
the stunt cabinet meeting department:
Nepalese politicians take part in a ...
Surprise--Obama Changes Up His Copenhagen Schedule
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It’s official: Barack Obama will attend the Copenhagen climate conference on
December 18, the final day of scheduled negotiations. Originally slated only ...
Apologies for the Light Posting
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Today has been a festival of interviews, meetings, and other non-bloggy
goodness. Due to my underestimating the time-suck, the annual gift guide
will be u...
A Little More Mystic Nationalism
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Jonah Goldberg has posted further thoughts on patriotism and nationalism. I
think we agree that, in the American context, the distinction between
nationali...
The Secret Muslim Plot Against Charlie Brown
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Russell Wiseman, the mayor of Arlington, Tennessee, sat down the other night
to watch the Charlie Brown Christmas special, but apparently some Muslim had
h...
Unless You Plan To Bang
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Millionaire, took me back to Outkast this week. There really is no way to
definitively argue who's greater than who in art. But with that caveat in
mind, I...
This “New Anti-War Right” Is Pro-War And Wrong
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Reihan: By its very nature, a counterinsurgency campaign is a limited war,
one that relies on winning over the civilian population through the careful
use ...
Friday Morning Videos: "Breakout" (Again)
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And since I can't stand to have Swing Out Sister's gloriously colorful video
robbed from my archives, here it is again as well.
My Feminine Perspective
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I could say a lot about Helen Rittlemeyer ’s Doublethink piece on women’s
Web sites and blogs, but I’m going to focus on her relatively minor
criticism of ...
Against Common Sense
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Conservatives would have us believe that they hold a monopoly on common
sense. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and many other right-wing
rabb...
Where Do We Draw The Line?
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I was having a conversation with someone the other day and she took a very
moderate position when it comes to taxation. “We shouldn’t be taxing people
who ...
On Palestinian Unilateralism
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The always-savory bitterlemons is especially interesting this week: four
essays that seem, for once, to converge in agreement. The topic at hand is
Palesti...
The City Summer 2009: Full Edition
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The Summer 2009 issue of The City has been posted in full via zmags, and is
now available below. We hope you enjoy it. var thumb = new Thumb(189236,
"myThu...
A Goodbye
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This has been my last week at *The Atlantic*. The magazine has been my home
for seven years, under four editors, permanent and interim: The late Michael
Ke...
Can Judges Be Tyrants?
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So, I'm returning to these old digs to promote a unique piece on which I'm
the co-author over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen. The piece is a
conversat...
In Defense of McCarthyism
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It's not online yet, but Dan McCarthy's piece for the first issue of Young
American Revolution, is remarkable for a number of reasons. Aside from the
fact ...
Don’t Take Any Guff From These Swine
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In two weeks The Politics of Scrabble will cease to be. The registration is
up after one year and given that all of my writing has migrated over to The
Lea...
CPAC Adventures
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I’m at the Conservative Political Action Conference in DC, an annual orgy of
the right-leaning masses, laden with star-studded speakers and wide-eyed
activ...
A word or two more
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Okay. So from a handful of Neo’s former writers I’ve gotten nothing but kind
words and encouragement. Thanks to Courtney, Roland, Walker, Edward, etc.
for...
The Ladyblog Lives — Patronize, Please
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There’s been some rumors about the fate of C11 now that we’re "officially"
over. I can’t speak for the rest of the site, but for now, Ladyblog lives
on. Pl...
Dhimmitude in Germany
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This is a complete outrage: Police in the western German city of Duisburg
have admitted they removed flags a student had hung in his apartment in
support o...
Mission: Missouri Ministers' School
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I've arrived on the shores of the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks in Osage
Beach, Missouri, where I'll be addressing a couple hundred Methodist
ministers over...
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