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Articles Written by: BEN CRAIR
The Republican National Convention, which continues tonight in St. Paul, Minn., was scheduled to begin Monday, the last day of the Minnesota State Fair. In this 2006 "Dispatch," Ben Crair took stock of the fair grounds, including the swine barns, the ...
From BEN CRAIR, Slate, 3 Sep 2008
At some point in the next four months, Spain will likely become the first country to extend legal rights to great apes, thereby protecting gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, and bonobos from abuse, torture, and unnatural death. The measure will, in ...
From BEN CRAIR, Slate, 29 Jul 2008
It's not in poor taste because of the intentions which are purely of the type which are used, as the saying goes, to pave the road to Hell. It is in poor taste because of the conception and execution of the artist and the judgement of the editor. It ...
I caught up with the Reverend Al Sharpton this morning after he spoke at an event on education reform. I asked him afterwards how he would push education reform as a civil-rights issue while countering the opposition of traditionally liberal actors ...
In a speech in West
Virginia earlier this week, Barack Obama attacked
John McCain for opposing Jim Webb's "21st Century G.I. Bill," the
original 1946 version of which paid full tuition and living costs for veterans
enrolling in college. As this helpful ...
Every hour of every day, people send angry emails they soon regret to people they barely know (or even worse, their friends and loved ones). Many people have learned a simple rule: Don't send an angry email in the heat of the moment. File it, and wait ...
Each virtue, however, contains a pitfall: “"[I]f the vice of sincerity is self-pity, the
vice of authenticity is narcissism." It’s interesting and fortunate
for Obama that his and Clinton’s vices are complimentary
rather than opposed: His ...
The passing of conservative icon and National Review founder William F. Buckley has given TNR contributors
pause to reflect on his legacy. John B. Judis, one of Buckley’s biographers,
writes
that “the key to Buckley is to understand that he was a rebel, ...
It’s been theorized (by Mickey Kaus and Maureen Dowd,
among others) that Hillary Clinton is the beneficiary of misfortune and
some of its attendant states: enfeeblement, debasement, etc.
This
is a resonant theory (and a morally complex one, in terms of ...
1. In his posting of January 27th, Cass Sunstein,
with the success of “McCain, Obama and to some extent Huckabee” in mind, wrote
that “unifying candidates are now being taken as a most refreshing change from
the last years.” I beg to differ.
In my view, ...
