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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.
Here’s a pretty good New York Times piece on whether or how the Boston Marathon bombing has...
I didn’t write anything about gun violence during the weeks leading up to what the president called...
As Nob deftly noted, there was big news on Tuesday as an influential 2010 study by professors Carmen...
Note: My thoughts and fervent best wishes go out to everyone in Boston. At this early juncture...
I’ve been thinking lately about Rand Paul’s recent attempt at what is called minority outreach at Howard...
Ezra Klein flags an interesting Gallup result showing rare uniformity in American public opinion. Turns out near everyone, Republicans...
Andrew Kohut, former Pew Research Center president and founding director, has a big op-ed in WaPo arguing...
So Digby’s reading these Iraq War mea culpas — and thank god for that because I tried...
Why even the most elegant or fairly put argument against gay marriage are doomed to failure.
Among many others, I have an unfortunate habit of writing posts during the evenings that I ultimately...
One of my pet peeves, one I will just never be able to fix and should probably...
Michael Tomasky of The Daily Beast’s response to the president’s fifth State of the Union address sounds much...
So Cantor gave his aforementioned big speech yesterday, the one about turning the GOP into an expansively inclusive party...
Ron Fournier of National Journal is following Eric Cantor around as the House Majority Leader terrifies DC’s infants (“Eric...
I feel like I shouldn’t laugh, because this remains a good idea, despite being extremely belated; but a New...
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/58205419 w=600&h=500] Via Digby I see this 1987 interview between Bill Moyers and Harry Blackmun, former Supreme Court...
David Brooks’s latest, this one on the meritocracy, is a good example of how all the right questions...
[A little late to post this, I know, but I just realized I had not shared it...
