Palin’s Gubernatorial Record

You can find my jaundiced take on what Iron Man’s box office bonanza means for the movie industry over at the Current. ... more

In which the Atlantic and yours truly find ourselves incorporated into the promotional machinery for Matt’s book . ... more

What Ezra , Matt and Megan said about the Times’s self-consciously condescending mass review of the greater New York area’s chain restaurants. I would only add that the concept behind the feature - sending food critics to write about popular establishments that almost never get reviewed - is perfectly sound; it’s just the "let’s treat this like an anthropologist’s trip to darkest Peru" execution that’s cringe-inducing. ... more

Perhaps the most prescient piece I’ve ever written (it’s a short list) was a column for the Wall Street Journal in June of ’06, which urged Barack Obama to run for President - because, I argued, "in presidential politics, it’s usually better to run too early than to wait, and wait, for a perfect moment that may not come." Now the talk of McCain-Jindal raises the question of whether the same dictum should be applied to accepting a vice-presidential slot when y... more