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Slate Magazine - Fighting Words - Aug 31, 2008
Sen. John McCain's now-notorious answer to the question of how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own was first repeated to me as if he had been deliberately joking. And I must say that I thought his reported …
Slate Magazine - Aug 25, 2008
Forty years ago this week, the greatest English-language poet of the 20th century sat down and wrote an eight-line verse: [more ...]
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The comparison between South Ossetia and Kosovo is bunk.Slate Magazine - Aug 18, 2008 While it is almost certainly true that Moscow's action in the Ossetian and (for good measure) the Abkhazian enclave of Georgia has been, in a real sense, the revenge for the independence of Kosovo (on Feb. 14 Vladimir … |
Slate Magazine - Fighting Words - Aug 10, 2008
One day I will publish my entire collection of upside-down Iraq headlines, where the true purport of the story is the inverse of the intended one. (Top billing thus far would go to the greatest downer of them all: the …
Slate Magazine - Fighting Words - Aug 4, 2008
Every now and then it happens. The state or the system encounters an individual who, bafflingly, maddeningly, absurdly, cannot be broken. Should they manage to survive, such heroes have a good chance of outliving the …
Slate Magazine - Fighting Words - Jul 28, 2008
It's almost certainly too late, after his coronation tour of the Middle East and Europe, to amend the story and to show precisely how and why the conventional wisdom about Barack Obama and the surge is wrong, but just …
Slate Magazine - Jul 21, 2008
It is extremely seldom that one has the opportunity to think a new thought about a familiar subject, let alone an original thought on a contested subject, so when I had a moment of eureka a few nights ago, my very …
Slate Magazine - Jul 14, 2008
If there is one element of moral and political certainty that cements the liberal consensus more than any other, it is the complacent view that while Iraq is "a war of choice," it is really and only Afghanistan that is …
Slate Magazine - Jul 7, 2008
It seemed somehow profane that Sen. Jesse Helms should have managed to depart this life on the 232nd anniversary of the declaration of American independence. To die on the Fourth of July, one can perhaps be forgiven …
Slate Magazine - Fighting Words - Jun 25, 2008
When the late Tim Russert actually became the late Tim Russert, I wrote an appreciation for the Vanity Fair Web site and said what I genuinely thought: that he was a nice and generous man and a first-rate journalist …