There’s really nothing people like reading more than blog posts about panel discussions where journalists sit around talking about blogging. (Seriously: I got some major uptake the last time I wrote one.) Anyway, I was on a panel Saturday afternoon in some kind of outbuilding of Jay Gould’s old mansion in Tarrytown, NY. The event [...]
Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Chavez have made some headlines by declaring that they’ve had it with pricing oil in dollars. Making headlines is what these two men aim to do, so in that sense their declarations were a big success. They also got the other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to agree [...]
The feedback I got on my critique of Ramesh Ponnuru’s inaugural Time column on health care was a good reminder both of why I hardly ever venture to write about about health care (it’s complicated) and why I should probably do it more often. Ponnuru made the case for a new, “radical” Republican approach that [...]
