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Elias Isquith
Elias Isquith is a freelance journalist and blogger. He considers Bob Dylan and Walter Sobchak to be the two great Jewish thinkers of our time; he thinks Kafka was half-right when he said there was hope, "but not for us"; and he can be reached through the twitter via @eliasisquith or via email. The opinions he expresses on the blog and throughout the interwebs are exclusively his own.
If your Facebook wall looks anything like mine, yesterday was a big day for The Nation’s Aura...
Nick Gillespie of Reason has written for The Daily Beast what is an essentially boring and rehashed...
There’s something about being a willfully marginal player in the political sphere that induces whininess. Or at...
Bobby Jindal is the governor of Louisiana. He talks like Kenneth from 30 Rock. He may or...
That’s what I ask in my latest piece for Salon.
The latest development in the ongoing civil war in Syria didn’t occur in Syria, actually, but in...
Via Andrew Sullivan I’ve come across this Daniel Larison post on the ascension of Susan Rice and Samantha Power. It is...
Erick Erickson said something offensive and stupid, which is usually not the kind of thing I’m inclined...
I think it’s fair to say that, excepting those conservatives with a passion for solitude, these are...
I’ve got a new post up at Jacobin that y’all should check out.
Give Jessica Valenti credit; she’s not afraid to be ahead of the curve. At least that’s one...
God help me, I just don’t understand conservatives sometimes. I disagree with them most of the time,...
With the implementation of Obamacare soon to really begin in-earnest, some conservatives have begun preemptively crowing over...
I don’t mean to turn this blog into Shit My Krugman Says, but this, on the underlying...
So Paul Krugman got a little pink in his latest column: The austerity agenda looks a lot like...
If Matt Yglesias sneezes you can bet there’s going to be a chorus of left-of-center tweeters ready...
Loath as I am to link to POLITICO, this is an interesting report on North Dakota freshman Senator Heidi...
Alec MacGillis takes a subtle shot at a Jonathan Chait post I recently praised, and upon reflection, I...
Check out the video above, if you can, to see Senator Durbin have a relatively congenial back-and-forth...
