Articles Written by:    CHRIS SUELLENTROP     

The Opinionator: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

Unfortunately, the Bushies have a history of treating everything as “terrorism.” Torturing the guy is much more Bush’s style. I read that wsj article. This ‘blog’ entry is just a poorly written synopsis of it. You get paid for this? Go get a ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  16 Dec 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  BBC,  Saddam Hussein

The Opinionator: Reader, Beware

Warning: I read this article on a screen. For centuries, print literacy has been one of the building blocks in the formation of the modern sense of self. By contrast, screen reading, a historically recent arrival, encourages a different kind of ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  15 Dec 2008
Related Topics: David Riesman,  Johns Hopkins,  The New Republic

The Opinionator: Blagojevich Buzzer Shot

For the past decade, Louisiana has staked itself to a big lead in the corruption faceoff. “According to statistics compiled by the Corporate Crime Reporter, it was No. 1 for the period between 1997 and 2006, with 326 federal corruption convictions. ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  15 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Rod R. Blagojevich,  Sarah Palin

Slate's year-end gaming club.

Two companies with a shrewd approach to minimum system requirements are Blizzard and Valve. Now, I don't want to overload you with a flurry of numbers. But if you compare the minimum specs for Blizzard and Valve titles like World of Warcraft: The ...

From N'GAI CROAL, SETH SCHIESEL, CHRIS SUELLENTROP, AND STEPHEN TOTILO, Slate,  12 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Sony,  Electronic Arts Inc.

Does truth serum work?

Four suspected terrorists refuse to talk about what they know about Sept. 11 and Al Qaida's plans for the future, the Washington Post reports: Zacarias Moussaoui, the French Moroccan who wanted to learn how to fly jets but not how to land them; ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, Slate,  4 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Zacarias Moussaoui,  Ayub Khan,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Digg

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
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Princeton University,  University of Chicago

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
Related Topics: Barack Obama

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
Related Topics: John McCain,  George Mason,  Jason Kidd,  Dallas Mavericks,  Dirk Nowitzki

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
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

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