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The Opinionator: America's Next Top Economist

Chicago economist Austan Goolsbee — once the chief economic adviser to candidate Barack Obama — may be less of a shoo-in to chair Obama’s White House Council of Economic Advisers than his admirers once imagined. The Obama transition team is ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2008

The Opinionator: Obama's Smoking Cure?

“Smoking is a disgusting habit that can kill you and those around you,” Kinsley concedes. But at the same time, he writes, “Obama’s good habits outweigh this single bad one.” He also writes: Obama is 47. A recent Journal of the National Cancer ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2008

The Opinionator: Back to the Herd

Has 2008 been the worst year in history for mavericks? Ilya Somin, a George Mason law professor, makes the case at The Volokh Conspiracy, a legal group blog. Somin writes: First, the Jason Kidd trade failed to give the Dallas Mavericks the boost they ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2008

The Opinionator: Losing Their Religion

And it is all about global warming legislation. The question is whether Waxman has the votes. Indeed, you can understand the challenge as one of two plays. In [the] first, Waxman, a veteran vote-counter, has the support to win the fight and is mounting ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2008

The Opinionator: The Unmaking of Lincoln's Cabinet

“Lincoln’s Cabinet was no team. His rivals proved to be uneven as subordinates. Some were capable despite their personal disloyalty, yet others were simply disastrous,” Pinsker writes. “Lincoln was a political genius, but his model for Cabinet-building ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2008

The Opinionator: Besting the ‘Best of’ Lists

Roberto Bolaño, “2666.” Duh. After four hundred pages of reading, I see it as less perfect than The Savage Detectives but it has greater world-historic reach and even some sprawl. A clear first choice in almost any year. Julian Barnes, “Nothing to be ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2008

The Opinionator: Do Not Pick This Cabinet

At Treasury, he doesn’t want to see Robert Rubin or Larry Summers (”[T]he hash Summers made out of Harvard’s presidency suggested that even after holding one of the highest positions in government, Summers still was pretty clueless about getting along ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2008

The Opinionator: Wrong Approach to Rights?

Writing at Independent Gay Forum, Jonathan Rauch (a senior writer for National Journal and a correspondent for The Atlantic) says he is “I’m disappointed and sad to have lost gay marriage in California.” Not just one defeat. On gay marriage, we’re now ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2008

The Opinionator: Missouri Compromised?

Missourians take peculiar pride in their state’s status as the nation’s most reliable bellwether –- between 1904 and 2004, the state voted with the winner of the presidential election every time but one (1956, when the Show-Me State swooned for Adlai ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2008

The Opinionator: Opinionating the Vote #17

“There are tens of millions of white Americans who are part of ethnic groups that have never produced a president,” Boaz writes. “The fact is, all 42 of our presidents have been of British, Irish, or Germanic descent. We’ve never had a president of ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2008

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