EvolutionBlog (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Over at The New Republic , Jonathan Chait states a central truth regarding the situation in Gaza. He was replying to this standard bit of lazy moral relativism from Ezra Klein: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Jonathan Chait, senior editor at The New Republic, claims Malkin is full of bull in a column dedicated to media bias . Excerpts:- The other day I played a leading role in a Michelle Malkin syndicated column about liberal media bias. Her complaint provides an interesting glimpse into the feverish workings of the paranoid mind of the far right. ...To cite a column I wrote as evidence of...
JerseySmarts.com (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
... there was an interest note. Here is the full text of that comment: A former WP writer named Jonathan Chait said this of GW Bush’s workouts in an opinion piece for the LA Times headlined, “The (over)exercise of power.” Recounting how President Bush ran 3.5 miles a day and preached more cross-training to a federal judge, Chait fumed, “Am I the only person who finds this disturbing?...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Jonathan Chait excoriates Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism : Klein proceeds to interpret most of the events of the last thirty years as repetitions of the same inexorable pattern: elites forcing laissez-faire policies upon unwilling citizens. Her interpretive method is an extremely crude sort of Marxist economicism. The Tiananmen Square uprising,...
