In response to my recent post on what I called Obama 2012’s rather limited ambitions, valued reader...
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.
In the past quarter-year or so, the economic news for the United States has been unpredictable. The...
Hey, wow, it’s Joe Klein and he’s being almost completely right about something:
The Atlantic‘s David A. Graham thinks there are three major ways in which the now-suspended Santorum campaign diminished...
Reihan Salam is, best as I can tell, the smartest right-wing pundit of his generation. He also...
A really interesting piece from the Times‘ Binyamin Appelbaum focuses on how parts of the country where...
Corey Robin was interviewed by David Johnson for the Boston Review, and at the very end the two...
Ed Kilgore, playing one my least favorite versions of What If since “Vice President Palin” was a...
Contrary to what I imagine every non-wingnut first thought upon reading it, this piece was not actually written by...
A new blockbuster report from The Washington Post serves as yet another retrospective on the failed Grand...
There’s a long and honorable legacy in the Jewish tradition of universalism, humanity, pacifism, and a generally...
Writing over at The New Inquiry, Ned Resnikoff asks the Left to think a little more concretely...
Weekly Standard‘s Jay Cost is bemoaning the dissolution of the old, pre-McGovern system of Party organization, when...
Responding to this Spencer Ackerman piece in Tablet, in which the Wired.com senior writer comes down on...
Once Wolf Blitzer had, remarkably, found a way to further insult the intelligence of his audience —...
As Peter Hart of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting noticed, Newsweek, liberal rag that it is, has...
Noting that, for the first time in a generation, inequality will be a major theme of a...
As E.D. notes, this is good to see: Kain is skeptical, however, that we’ll see other politicians...
Last night, I watched the anti-Romney 30-minute “documentary” from a Gingrich Super PAC, “King of Bain,” and...
A pretty good piece in the New York Times today about social mobility in America or, more...
