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Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss is a senior editor of Tablet Magazine and a culture blogger for The New Criterion. He also writes occasionally for Slate, The Weekly Standard, City Journal, The New York Daily News and Standpoint.
Why the Palin Pick Was Brilliant
John McCain's shrewd move has already robbed the Democrats of their post-convention afterglow.
New Yorker Cover Parody Lost on the Left
What good is satire if you have to explain what you are lampooning?
Why Michael Bloomberg is Hugely Overrated
The NYC mayor substitutes high-priced PR and nanny-statism for good government.
Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich: The Real Dream Team
Forget McCain and Lieberman. This would be the ultimate bipartisan match.
Obama-Clinton: The ‘Not on Your Life’ Ticket
A Barack-Hillary fusion would be more like teammates from hell than a dream team. Why would Obama subject himself to a stolen limelight and a neutered presidency?
Is Al-Qaeda Disintegrating?
Which way al-Qaeda? Trotsky or Che? The bitter ideological squabbles of Islamic jihadists are following in the footsteps of the philosophical arguments that fractured Communist comrades.
When the Founding Fathers Faced Islamists
Back in 1784, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had to decide whether to appease or stand up to armed Middle Eastern pirates. Sound familiar?
Obama’s Iraq Minefield
It is merely a matter of time before Barack Obama — the self-proclaimed antiwar candidate — will have to face his contradictions, falsehoods, and alarming displays of ignorance on Iraq.
