You might ask "How could it get any worse?" To that query, I reply "Mr. James Kirchick."First things first, in accusing Eric Alterman and Matt Yglesias of nihilism for the crime of linking to my denunciation of Christopher Hitchens China column, Mr. Kirchick handily demonstrates...
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I'll leave a fuller discussion of Jeffrey Goldberg's rant against Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer to someone else, but this point in particular deserves some attention:The Judeocentric understanding of America's.
Showing how much my instincts can be trusted, the "Scott Thomas" story turns out to have been solid, with the only demonstrable error a trivial detail irrelevant to the main.
Scott Thomas issues a defense of his TNR Diary. The fact that he's willing to open himself up to the inevitable wingnut smear jobs does give me more confidence in the veracity of his accounts....and the smears begin.
Alterman is on the case:It is a sad but true fact of American political life that liberals rarely exercise so much influence as when they happen to be endorsing conservative.
Apparently CanWest has bought 100% of The New Republic. Which makes this rather puzzling:Marty Peretz, who no longer owns part of the magazine, for the first time since 1974, will.
Hmm, Can West has taken over the New Republic--but, alas, Marty Peretz is keeping his stake. Apparently they'll be moving to a bi-weekly, twice-the-length format (if this means more space for the book review, frankly it could be an improvement.) Amusingly, Kit Seelye's article takes...