I’ve always felt that I should dis­like David Brooks more than I do. He’s the erst­while con­ser­v­a­tive foil to E.J. Dionne on NPR, Offi­cial Con­ser­v­a­tive at the New York Times, and rel­a­tively recent neo­con gadfly-lite. I don’t like his ideas, but he’s always seemed so mil­que­toast that I haven’t been able to get up a […]

There’s not much to say about the first day of the Demo­c­ra­tic National Con­ven­tion except to note that Michelle Obama will be a very dif­fer­ent kind of First Lady. And thank God for that. She was artic­u­late, com­fort­able, lov­ing, steely, com­pe­tent and unafraid. And she was dar­ing. She seemed to adver­tise that she would take a […]

I’m pretty sure I speak for most of us (lib­eral, elite, hand-wringers) when I say, the Demo­c­ra­tic Party bet­ter not screw this up. My wife asked me just recently if I was still con­fi­dent that we would win in Novem­ber. My answer? Not if Novem­ber were today. But I have con­fi­dence that the Dems will […]

So, I haven’t checked my email this fever­ishly since… I met my wife, and that was back when I had to dial up via modem each time. Today I am look­ing for a mes­sage from Barack Obama as to whom he has cho­sen as his Vice Pres­i­den­tial pick. For those not keep­ing score at home: Biden […]