Pajamas Media
The New Media Echo Chamber
We gravitate to websites that reinforce our own opinions. Does that make us more extreme?
Comparing Sarah Palin to… Osama Bin Laden?
Welcome to the new populist "progressivism," brought to you by Juan Cole.
China’s Revealing Spectacle of Lies
With communism comes an almost pathological need to propagandize on an Olympic scale.
Obama and McCain’s Iran Smears
Campaigns never involve a substantive discussion of the issues. Why should we expect this year to be any different as Obama and McCain "debate" Iran policy?
The Unreason of The Age of American Unreason
Susan Jacoby's new book demonstrates a keen grasp of anti-intellectualism in American culture, but is hindered by a left-wing partisan slant that's anything but reasonable.
No Politician is Holy – or Unholy
Conservatives have called out worshipful Obama supporters for ignoring their hero's obvious moral flaws. But similar hardheaded criticism can and should be leveled against the right, too.
What Robert McFarlane Still Doesn’t Know About Afghanistan
John McCain's point man on Afghanistan is Robert "Bud" McFarlane, an Iran-Contra holdover who, sadly, hasn't learned much about the Middle East since the 80's, argues Josh Strawn.
MTV and the Holocaust
What happens when Nazism or the Holocaust is toyed with and marketed for the viral video generation? Josh Strawn on our twisted new pop culture.
