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Jon Stewart and Chris Wallace
I don't have time to do more than mention this, and it's all over everywhere in any case. But, seriously, sometime take a look at the Jon Stewart / Chris Wallace exchange this weekend on Fox. The 24...
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Ads We Like: Summer in the City, SF Style
San Francisco is a great place, but anyone who's been there between June and September knows that it can be freezing in the summertime. [Deliberately avoiding Mark Twain cliche here.] [Why is it so...
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More on Stewart v. Wallace
In response to yesterday's item about the Jon Stewart-Chris Wallace showdown on Fox, and Wallace's seeming inability to grasp Stewart's main argument, several reader responses that deal with Wallace's...
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Welcome the Huntsman
I was among the early scoffers at reports that then-ambassador to China Jon Huntsman Jr. was planning to run against Barack Obama in 2012. Hey, if Huntsman ever has to deflect criticism that his main...
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Eamonn Fingleton Makes a $10,000 Offer
Earlier this year, Eamonn Fingleton (right), an economics writer based in Tokyo since the 1980s, got a lot of attention with a guest post in this space arguing that the image of Japan as an economic...
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From the Archives: Why We Hate the Media
I've gotten a lot of mail about the recent exchanges between Jon Stewart and Chris Wallace, which I'll get to in the next few days. For the moment, it might be worth posting a link to an Atlantic cover...
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June 22
The Queen's College Chapel, Oxford, June 22, 1971.Happy Anniversary! The bride and groom, both age 21, had no idea what the next 40 years would bring.
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I Liked the 'Chinese Professor' Ad, But This Is Stupid and Offensive
(See update below.) Unlike many people, I admired the panache and artistry of the "Chinese Professor" ad used during last fall's campaign to warn about the self- destructive tendencies of America's...
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Least Valuable Player: Rep. Eric Cantor
I've complained in the past about Sen. Richard Shelby's willful veto of Peter Diamond's nomination as a Fed governor, and about Sen. Mitch McConnell's intentional stall of nominees across the board, as...
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Obama's 'Own Goal' on the Libya Vote
Things are hard enough for the Obama Administration when it has logic, the national interest, and Democratic party principles on its side. As, in my view, has been the case with its health-care reform...
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The Vote in New York
It is thrilling to follow Andrew Sullivan's chronicle of the tension, release, drama, and aftermath this evening. Also, Nicholas Jackson's tech and political insights (source of the "Rainbow Empire...
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What Might Have Been: The French View
The French National Library has a wonderful exhibit of prints from 1910, imagining the wonderful new world of the year 2000. For instance, how we would learn: And, le train électrique...
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Bachmann on 'Face the Nation': Two Signs She Is Serious
The two takeaways from this morning's show (via notes written 12+ hours ago -- have been in transit in the interim):1) She looks so much better than she used to. Compare her appearance from a famous...
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Something Entertaining, If You're Feeling Smart
Mark Bernstein, of Eastgate software and the powerful and intriguing Tinderbox program, was a guest-blogger here earlier this year. Last week, at the Web Science '11 conference in Koblenz, Germany, he...
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Maybe Bachmann Still Has Things to Learn About Campaigning?
I mentioned last night how professionally disciplined and polished Michele Bachmann's political operation seemed capable of becoming, at this very early stage. Certainly in comparison with the gaffes...
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Bachmann's 'John Wayne' Gaffe: In the Reagan Tradition?
As you've read in recent moments all over the Atlantic's site -- from Joshua Green, from the Wire, from me -- and conceivably from other info sources too, today Michele Bachmann put a dent in her...
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Cheap Chic at Aspen
As Jeffrey Goldberg and Alexis Madrigal have reported, an Atlantic contingent is in Aspen this week for our annual Ideas Festival. More on the topic from me as time, event-obligations, and thin air...
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Walk Like an Australian
Six months ago I ran a series of items under the "Walk Like an American" rubric, on how and whether you could tell apart people of similar racial background but of different nationalities. That is:...
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And Today the Sun Rose in the East
Over the past day and a half Google has begun rolling out its "Google+" social networking features*. And immediately this response from the government of the country where more people use the internet...
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The Real Dickishness Problem
Of course Mark Halperin should not be fired for saying on MSNBC that President Obama had been "kind of a dick" when sounding angry at Republicans during his press conference yesterday. I say that...
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