The New Republic

by David GreenbergIn the fall of 1990 I was fresh out of college and interning at The New Republic, taking in the excitement of living in Washington for the first time and working at a leading liberal magazine. Sometime in the early afternoon on Election Day, Sid Blumenthal, then a senior editor at TNR, walked into the office with exit poll numbers. Back then, these numbers were a closely guarded secret, and as he ran down the projected outcomes of gubernatorial and senatorial races, one felt the thrill of getting the inside dope. READ MORE >>

I'm sitting in my hotel room in Paris trying to eke out some hints from CNN. Nothing really. So I read The Plank in TNR Online. What seems clear is that Senator George Allen, Republican from Virginia, is on his way at midnight here (6 p.m. in Washington) to a devastating defeat. READ MORE >>

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Horrors! Deep in the proposal given to Russia and China by the United States for the sanctions resolution against Iran in the UN Security Council lies one controversial provision. It would restrict Iranian students at universities abroad from studying nuclear physics. And maybe it would extend to physics, generally, and to mathematics. But maybe not. READ MORE >>

Some of us remember filling those old Jewish National Fund boxes with nickels and dimes (plus a few quarters) with which "we" helped reforest the land of Israel and also buy land from perfectly willing--indeed, very eager--Arab sellers. It is a luminous and true memory, and it also taught us our responsibility for others. READ MORE >>

The DiTomasso brothers may not have much in common with George W. Bush, but there's one thing the president and the mob-linked contractors share: Both have reason to rue the day they met Bernard B. Kerik. READ MORE >>

by Eric Rauchway Early in my career I started giving lectures using laptops and presentation software. Others at my university were doing likewise. Still others were lecturing in a form of academic dress. Some were doing both. I am therefore fully prepared to believe that READ MORE >>

Maybe there's no purpose in calling attention to an editorial in the New York Times. Either you get the hard copy of the paper every day ... or you can't get an editorial on the day it's printed, since it gets caught behind the maddening (but quite understandable) Times Select fence for 24 hours. On the other hand, sometimes when there's a link from one web site to another, you can jump the fence. READ MORE >>

by Eric Rauchway I'd like to root for Steven Pinker in the Pinker/Lakoff quarrel, if only because Steve's a fellow Open U faculty member. (Go, Virtual Dons!) But then he trotted out this point: READ MORE >>

by Daniel Drezner In celebrating the Oakland A's sweep of the Minnesota Twins in the ALDS, the Volokh Conspiracy's Ilya Somin explains why he is rooting for the A's--it's because he's a member of George Mason University's law school faculty: READ MORE >>