Category Archives: Politics

The Bengals, Hamilton County, and the world’s worst stadium lease

Posted on 24 October 2011 by

[Cincinnati Magazine] Well, after a couple teasers — a miscellany of quotations from the county official who became a Bengals exec; an appreciation of Mike Brown as a “near-brilliant litigator” — my feature on the Bengals and their stadium lease … Continue reading →

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Christmas is only three months away!

Posted on 16 September 2011 by

For their December 1990 issue, the editors of The American Spectator did the same thing they’d done every year since 1976: they asked a few famous writers, academics, and political types to provide book recommendations for the holiday shopping season. … Continue reading →

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Presidents and Their Limited Editions

Posted on 27 May 2011 by

[Boston Globe] I’m a little late in linking to this, but I wrote another story for the Boston Globe‘s Ideas section — this one on the crazy, opulent history of deluxe presidential memoirs, books that typically come with autographs, artificially … Continue reading →

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The Non-Controversy over Barack Obama’s Of Thee I Sing

Posted on 30 April 2011 by

Earlier this week, we put to rest one of the right wing’s more durable political myths. To celebrate the occasion — and to remind us that these myths can be big or small and can originate on the right or … Continue reading →

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Reprinting Reagan

Posted on 7 April 2011 by

I’m switching gears to work on some long-term projects, which may mean fewer story links and deleted scenes. That said, I want to keep writing regularly, so the plan is to do more short, standalone posts. They might be a … Continue reading →

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