Culture 11 Is Dead
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 29th, 2009 at 3:28 pmOne of the big advantages liberals have in the culture at large is that most writers and journalists–even if they’re not political writers per se–are…
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Bad Binaries
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 27th, 2009 at 2:23 pmI’m a bit perturbed by Jeffrey Goldberg’s trumpeting of poll results showing that “Sixty percent of Americans in the nationwide survey said they were sympathetic…
Beyond the Stimulus
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 26th, 2009 at 3:01 pmThe best argument that conservative critics of the stimulus bill have is that the spending won’t be fast acting enough. Of course, the Obama team…
Not a Miracle
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 16th, 2009 at 5:45 pmThe successful water landing of US Airways 1549 was certainly extraordinary. I had been under the impression that no plane of its type had ever…
France’s Greatest Intellectual
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 15th, 2009 at 3:55 pmThe Telegraph has a cute little profile of Esther Duflo, the economist at MIT who is widely credited with launching and sustaining the empirical revolution…
One Quick Thing On Joe
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 12th, 2009 at 5:17 pmThe conservative defense of Joe the Plumber going to Israel is pretty strange. If you read Michelle Malkin or Bob Owens, they will point out…
Didn’t James Cameron Tell Us This Was A Bad Idea?
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 6th, 2009 at 9:59 amWhile most kids, if they’re Christian, learn their life lessons from the Bible (or, if they’re Jewish, the collected works of Chaim Potok), I learned…
Why Have An Invocation At All?
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 19th, 2008 at 11:30 amRick Warren
I’m totally on board with those who think that Obama’s choice of Rick Warren (see other discussion about Rick Warren on Pushback here…
A Limited Defense of Gates
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 19th, 2008 at 9:30 amDylan makes a ton of good points in opposition to Gates staying on at Secretary of Defense, but I think there’s one way in which…
The South Will Get Cabinet Seats Again!
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 15th, 2008 at 2:11 pmThis Politico article, covering some anonymous grumbling that Obama hasn’t appointed a Southerner to his cabinet, is remarkably silly. One the most basic level, all…
Against Holocaust Movies
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pmPeter Suderman passes along Stuart Klawans’ proposal to stop producing Holocaust movies. As someone who’s Hebrew School education largely consisted of watching those very films, I very…
Bizarre Foreign Policy Decisions Biting Us In The Ass
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pmRemember in late 2006, when an Islamist group named the Islamic Courts Union took over large swathes of Somalia and brought the first functioning (albeit…
Eliot Spitzer Emerges
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 4th, 2008 at 1:23 pmFirst it was his column in The Washington Post on financial regulation, and now everyone’s favorite disgraced governor is back with a regular gig writing…
Afghanistan Signs Cluster Bomb Treaty
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pmOne of the ravages of modern warfare is the cluster bomb. The way most of these bombs work is by spraying “bomblets” all over the…
Holbrooke to South Asia?
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pmRichard Holbrooke was one of those Democratic foreign policy gurus whose reputation and future employment prospects were all but ruined by his vociferous support for…
