Columbus Day
The Truth About Occupy Wall Street: It’s Much Smaller Than It Seems
'We Will Likely Vote Friday or Saturday'
Somewhere in the White House or Capitol Hill, I imagine, is a whiteboard that looks like this: August recess September Columbus Day Thanksgiving Christmas New Year's State of the Union Valentine's Day St. Patrick's Day And now passing health care reform by St. Patrick's Day, which is next Wednesday, seems impossible.
Geithner and Summers, From the Baseline
Just wanted to engage in a little crass self-promotion for those who come directly to The Stash, or who took the Internet off for Columbus Day: I have a piece in our current issue about the tennis-playing habits of the Obama economic team--Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, and Gene Sperling, et al--which, I half-seriously suggest, can be understood as a metaphor for their West Wing interactions.
TNR on Christopher Columbus
For those overcome with Columbus Day spirit--and, really, who among us isn't?--here's a wonderful piece from our archive. It's by Simon Schama, and it's called "They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus." It's worth your time.
Uneasy Holiday
There was always a special patriotism to the speeches of Martin Luther King. No other American orator could bring audiences to their feet by reciting three full stanzas of "My Country, Tis of Thee." From there he often soared across the American landscape in perorations calling on freedom to ring "from the granite peaks of New Hampshire . . . from the mighty Alleghenies of Pennsylvania . . . from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado . . . from Lookout Mountain in Tennessee! Let it ring . . .
