Category Archives: The Media

More Mark Twain

Posted on 19 December 2010 by

[On the Media] Well, now Mark Twain’s Autobiography has really arrived. On this week’s Saturday Night Live, Bill Hader trotted out his terrific Julian Assange impression. “If I am falsely imprisioned for one more day,” Hader-slash-Assange says, “anyone purchasing Mark … Continue reading →

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The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

Posted on 15 November 2010 by

[Boston Globe] In today’s Boston Globe, I’ve got a review of George W. Bush’s Decision Points. The presidential memoir has become a very odd and very unique media event — an event where the book’s release matters more than the book … Continue reading →

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The Drudge Report and Bush’s Decision Points

Posted on 8 November 2010 by

[New York] In this week’s New York magazine, I’ve got a short little essay arguing that presidential memoirs exist not to be read so much as to be discussed. That’s clearly the case with Bush’s new Decision Points, though the full … Continue reading →

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But will she listen?

Posted on 20 August 2010 by

I’m still working on my essay on political scandal, and that work is still producing wacky asides. This one comes from Richard Strout, who reviewed Time columnist Hugh Sidey’s book on Lyndon Johnson, A Very Personal Presidency, for the New York … Continue reading →

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In which I finally find a reason to post about Chelsea Clinton’s wedding

Posted on 3 August 2010 by

One of the most influential legal articles ever written — and an article I keep running into since I’m working on an essay about political scandal — is Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis’s “The Right of Privacy” (1890). “The Right … Continue reading →

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